And so we end the Passover seder according to law.
We have conducted it according to tradition, according to statute.
Just as we have merited the privilege of conducting it this year, so may we be worthy of performing it in the future.
Oh Pure One Who dwells on high, raise up your numberless people!
Speedily lead the shoots of Your stock, redeemed, to Zion with joyous song!
Next year in Jerusalem!
This poem (it rhymes in the original Hebrew), originating in France roughly 1,000 years ago, marks the beginning of Nirtzah, the final section of the Haggadah. It seems fitting, therefore, to begin the concluding diary in our series about the Haggadah (itself part of a series of diaries about Passover) with it.
But of course, before we get to Nirtzah, we still have one more section of the Haggadah to address: Hallel.
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