The first Seder of Passover 2025/5785 is on Saturday Night. The next time we’ll have this setup of a Shabbos Erev Pesach will be Passover 2045 – in twenty years time!
This recalls a classic short story by O’Henry titled “After Twenty Years”. Not to give away the plot twist and surprise ending but suffice it to say that the story implies that a lot has transpired in twenty years and this reunion of childhood friends after twenty years apart tells us how transformed their lives have been since they last saw each other.
As we sit down to the Seder in 2025, imagine yourself in twenty years, at the Passover Seder in 2045. What is the same? What will be different? How do our actions and choices today play a role in what we will see & be in Passover 2045? How do our actions and choices today affect our personal trajectory?