Tonight, we also acknowledge our parents and ancestors.  We vow that we will not allow their stories, their experiences, their wisdom, to be stolen from us.  It is our legacy and we will study it and teach it to our friends and children.  In sadness, we remember death and suffering, but in joy, we remember liberation.

The Fourth Cup of Wine

Before we drink from the final cup of wine, we should read and excerpt from Anne Frank's diary:

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all of my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.   Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.  I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.  I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness.  I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too.  I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.  In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."

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We dedicate the final cup of wine to our hopes and dreams for the future.  We dream of a world not threatened by destruction.  We hope for a time when Jerusalem will be a beacon of brotherhood and sisterhood.  We dream of a world in which Jews and other people are free to be themselves.  We dream of a world at peace.

Our seder is now complete.  May we be granted the blessing of celebrating Pesach for many years to come.

Happy Passover!


haggadah Section: Conclusion
Source: The Family Haggadah