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“We’re told this is the food of our faith because it represents the faith that Jews had in God when they left Egypt,” said Rabbi Mendel Stein, the school’s development director.
Stein brought some to Jay Novetsky, an ophthalmologist from Southfield. To him, Passover affords plenty of opportunities to remember past restoration, present religious freedom and future generations.
“The biblical commandment is that we should tell the story to our children,” he said. “My father told the story to me, my grandfather told the story to my father. ... This year, I look forward very much to telling the story not only to my children, but also to my grandchildren so that the chain of tradition that comes all the way from the time of receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai is perpetuated again and again.”
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