Every year at Passover we sit around the table, dressed in our finest clothing, and we tell a story with a hopeful ending: we were oppressed, God redeemed us, we left Egypt on our way to freedom, and with successes and failures, with fears and certainties, we walked through the wilderness until we reached the land of our ancestors.  But this Passover — like the Passovers of 2024 and 2025 — carries a bitterness deeper than the maror we taste so that we never forget the bittern