On the eve of Passover, Professor Wiesel asks questions about the meaning of exile and redemption and the connection between them. He traces the idea and experience of exile in Jewish memory and history, from Adam and Eve to the present day. He delineates four national exiles: the Exodus from Egypt; the exiles after the destruction of the Temples; the exile from faith attempted by the Crusaders and the “fourth exile, the cruelest and most far-reaching” in Nazi Europe. He questions whether exile was always bad for Jews and points to Jewish spiritual and intellectual renaissances in exile, but he also discusses the exile of language and anti-Semitism in exile. Reading from Legends of Our Time, he recalls the last Seder he shared with his family in Hungary 1944 and wonders whether God suffered with His people, whether He accompanied His people into that exile, whether Elijah the prophet visited his last Seder and who that Elijah was. Professor Wiesel teaches us that every generation begets a prophet in its own image.