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April 1, 2026

The Seder Is the Jews’ Most Powerful Technology of Transmission

Solving the problem that troubled Plato.

If the Jewish people have mastered one thing, it is the transmission of their heritage from one generation to the next. Perhaps no practice exemplifies this cultural skill as does the Passover seder. Rafi Eis notes that the ritual meal points to a solution to a problem that has troubled moral philosophers since the beginning of philosophy itself:

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