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Whose story do we tell on the Seder night?The answer, at first, seems obvious: the story we tell is our own, the story of our deliverance from slavery to freedom. It is the core story of our people. It is the grand drama of Jewish history in which we are still enmeshed today.But this week’s parashah offers another interpretation, one in which it is God, not (only) ourselves, at the center of the story.