Who Knows One? What The Popular Passover Song Teaches Us About the Holocaust
At the end of the Seder we sing the song “Who knows One?" As we recite verses that increase the count with each next verse, it becomes more difficult to remember all the elements to be included. Then we culminate with Had Gadyah where next to the last verse we introduce “and then came the angel of death...” I am afraid that in the same manner, we count the generations relevant to The Shoah, and in doing so, are on course for creating an angel of death to the experiential memory of perhaps the most tragic event of our nation. We are on a path to a loss of awareness, sensitivity, concern and connection to the future generations' attachment to the Shoah and it is coming from our design. But there's something we can do...