Setting aside all that theo-political stuff, all the high-minded talk and ideas that lend themselves to the public performance and moral didacticism, the social form of the actual Passover seder is intimate; a small scale familial rite, familiar and inward-looking in essence. Make of it what you will, but it’s probably a mistake to pretend it is anything much more than that. While I don’t exactly remember if he put women at the table and I’m assuming he did not, Rosenzweig understood at least that much in the Star of Redemption. The simple image here is from the Barcelona Haggadah, Spain (Catalonia), c. 1340. It says a lot about “Jewishness” or “Judaism.” Not really universal, it’s a modest table-thing.