{"id":94042,"date":"2021-03-24T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/sharansky-seder\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T08:08:24","slug":"sharansky-seder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/sharansky-seder\/","title":{"rendered":"Natan Sharansky&#8217;s First Seder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was born into a completely assimilated Jewish family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing Jewish, except the anti-Semitism. No traditions, no holidays, no language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 24, I joined the Zionist movement. We struggled to free the Jews of the Soviet Union. As part of my Zionist activities, I began to learn Hebrew in secret, in an underground <em>ulpan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94015\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94015\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-young500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-young500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-young500-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-young500-414x600.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natan Sharansky, 1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I celebrated the first Passover Seder of my life with my fianc\u00e9 at the time, Avital (then Natasha), in Moscow. Three Hebrew teachers brought all of their students together for one big Seder in a Moscow apartment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we didn\u2019t know Hebrew well enough to read from the Haggadah, the teachers gave each of us a short part to memorize. We didn\u2019t understand many of the words, expressions or sentences, yet one line in particular we didn\u2019t just understand\u2026 we felt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<em>\u2026ela sh&#8217;bkhol dor v&#8217;dor omdim aleinu l&#8217;khaloteinu<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 &#8220;in each generation, they stand against us to destroy us\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was enough to simply look out the window and see the KGB agents surrounding the apartment to know that we ourselves were continuing the Exodus from Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And when we said, &#8220;<em>L&#8217;shana ha&#8217;baa b&#8217;Yerushalayim!<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 &#8220;Next year in Jerusalem!&#8221;, we believed and knew that just like the Israelites in Egypt, we too would live lives of freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before that freedom came, Avital and I would be separated from one another for twelve years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For nine of them, I was in the Gulag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94018\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94018\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/avital-1977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/avital-1977.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/avital-1977-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avital Sharansky, 1977<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I celebrated the Seder in solitary confinement, I needed to decide what would be matzah, what would be <em>maror<\/em> and what would be wine, when all I had in solitary were three slices of bread, three cups of warm water and a bit of salt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I decided that the <em>maror<\/em> was salt, the wine was warm water, and the matzah was dry bread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recalling the lines I had learned for my first Seder, I felt that our struggle continued. It strengthened my spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<em>B&#8217;Shana zo anu avadim l&#8217;shana ha&#8217;baa bnei horin, ha&#8217;shana anu kan uv&#8217;shana ha&#8217;baa b&#8217;Yerushalayim<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 &#8220;This year we are slaves, next year free men; this year we are here, and next year in Jerusalem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94021\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-94021 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-release.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sharansky-release-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd celebrates Natan Sharansky&#8217;s arrival at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, 12 February 1986 (Photo: Efi Sharir). 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