Yet it is not these festivals alone which call the Jew to remember Yetsiat Mitzrayim (the exodus from Egypt); every prayer, every religious event, compels us to recall our history’s chief frame of reference; even the songs of Hanukkah celebrate the Passover’s central historical significance. Will Herberg, the influential twentieth-century scholar of Judaic studies and philosophy, called Exodus-Sinai “the interpretive center of redemptive history.” Our history supplies our identity. We are fortunate