Here is another interpretation of the Four Sons written after October 7th. How does each resonate with you?
All Four (Are One) Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
Today the Four Children are a Zionist, a Palestinian solidarity activist, a peacenik, and one who doesn’t know what to even dream. The Zionist, what does she say? Two thousand years we dreamed of return. “Next year in Jerusalem” is now, and hope is the beacon we steer by. The solidarity activist, what do they say? We know the heart of the stranger. To be oppressors is unbearable. Uplift the downtrodden. The peacenik, what does he say? We both love this land and neither is leaving. We’re in this together. Between the river and the sea two peoples must be free. And the one who doesn’t know what to even dream: feed that one sweet haroset , a reminder that building a just future has always been our call. All of us are wise. None of us is wicked. (Even the yetzer ha-ra is holy—without it no art would be made, no future imagined.) We are one people, one family. Not only because history’s flames never asked what kind of Jew one might be, but because the dream of collective liberation is our legacy.
We need each other in this wilderness. Only together can we build redemption.
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