SPIRIT COMMENTARY
The Quest for Curiosity Begins with the Seder
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earning to nurture seder. curiosity is the quest This element of curiosity, of our times. of childlike wonder, How do we nurture continues throughout the in our children and in seder. We point, we probe, ourselves curiosity, we speculate, we not cynicism? marvel. Fascination not And it’s not just the apathy? How do we children. If there are raise a generation of no children attending, curious kids? then an adult will ask Rabbi In a fast-changing the four questions. Warren world, as technology Indeed, at the seder, Goldstein shifts the way we we are all children; JNS live, learn, work and we are all curious. play — and established And if, like the simple professions quickly son, we lack that curiosity become obsolete — how and “don’t know how to do we equip them with the ask,” others must “open up curiosity necessary to adapt the conversation for us,” and find their place? provoking us into a curious More fundamentally, in a state. world of mass cynicism and apathy, how do we raise our PROVOKING THOUGHT children to be engaged and People conventionally underenthusiastic, to be excited stand the seder to be about about life? And excited getting the children to ask about being Jewish? questions. But it’s deeper than that. It’s about provokASKING QUESTIONS ing curiosity. The Passover seder is a Curiosity is more crash course in curiosity. profound; it’s what makes We kick off the main section us care enough to ask — during which we relive questions in the first the great beginnings of the place. To be curious is to Jewish people, our Exodus show an interest — and to from Egypt and our liberbe interested enough to ation from slavery — with want to know more. It’s a “Mah Nishtanah?” (“The Four fascination that is expressed Questions”) traditionally through a question that sung or recited by the young- arises in your mind. est child. One of the reasons we do this is as a warmup exercise to provoke our curi- Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein is the osity for the remainder of the chief rabbi of South Africa.
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