<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Passover</span><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Tell me: how is this night different </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">From all other nights?</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">How, tell me, is this Passover</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Different from other Passovers?</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Light the lamp, open the door wide</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">So the pilgrim can come in,</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Gentile or Jew;</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Under the rags perhaps the prophet is concealed.</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Let him enter and sit down with us;</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Let him listen, drink, sing and celebrate Passover;</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Let him consume the bread of affliction,</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">The Paschal Lamb, sweet mortar and bitter herbs.</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">This is the night of differences</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">In which you lean your elbow on the table,</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Since the forbidden becomes prescribed,</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Evil is translated into good.<br class=""><br class=""></span><center style="text-align: left; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td1"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">We will spend the night recounting</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Far-off events full of wonder,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">And because of all the wine</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">The mountains will skip like rams.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Tonight they exchange questions:</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">The wise, the godless, the simple-minded and the child.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">And time reverses its course,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Today flowing back into yesterday, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Like a river enclosed at its mouth.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Each of us has been a slave in Egypt,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Soaked straw and clay with sweat,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">And crossed the sea dry-footed.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">You too, stranger.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">This year in fear and shame,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Next year in virtue and in justice.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Primo Levi</font></span></div><div class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></center><center style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""></center><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>