b'NirtzahConclusionALL TOGETHER:We still have a great deal of work to do before we can all sit at one, global, communal Seder table to celebrate our Exodus from slavery, and our entry into the Promised Land. But as we keep telling our stories and celebrating our truths, as we become more aware, generation after generation, of what our liberation costs, as we decide it is always worth the price, we come closer and closer to meeting there, all together, as one.Amen.In The Voice Of MiriamREADER:So it is that I take my first tentative steps into the sea that is no longer there. Each time my feet are raised over the magical surface of the earth that replaces the water, it is an act of faith to put them down again. The will to be free and the pure tones of my brothers voice drive me on.READER:I withdraw the hand-drum from the pack I carry on my back and begin to play, to make my contribution to the music that thunders all around me. A lifetime of yearning for celebration wells up in me. Every time I was forced to be quiet, every time I wanted to let the sound of my voice fill the space that contained and contaminated the joy hidden away in my soul, all is released. And my body flies. This is my freedom and I want to experience it all.READER:In my ecstasy, I catch the eyes of one woman and then another and invite each one to join me in the dance.READER:We are more beautiful than I could ever have imagined any one of us being. All shapes and sizes of breasts and bellies and thighs and smiles join together in the dance.I hold nothing back from my dance and they hold nothing back from me.We dance andwe dance and we dance.And then, the work of freedom truly begins. Then Miriam the prophetess, Aarons sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed after her drumming and dancing. And Miriam led them in chant: Sing tothe Eternal, who has triumphed gloriously, horse and rider have been hurled into the sea! Exodus 15:20-2146'