The other day, I heard someone give her answer to that question.
Why is this night different from all other nights?
"It isn't" she said with a one sided smile. "Its the same drawn out thing every year."
Well that’s too bad I suppose. Why should this night be different? It doesn't become different on its own. It becomes different because all the days of the year need to be spent looking for how to change that night; how to change the world and ourselves. It needs to be different because our tomorrows need to be a step up from yesterday.
Some times changes come from G-d, and sometimes we need to reach upward and outward to make the changes that G-d wants us to make in this world.
So why is this night different from all other nights? Because we make it that way; we have grown in our freedom to understand our relationship with G-d, to understand the freedom that comes through serving Him, to understand the responsibility that comes with freedom.
So Pesach has come and gone. Perhaps this year was different than the last, perhaps it turned out to be like every other Pesach night that came before it. Certainly in either case we should change ourselves so that next Pesach we will be able to answer that question. Wouldn't it be great to say, this night is different from all other nights because I spent the time
that it took to self reflect, to learn, to improve the world; to say tonight is different because I can look back and remember that the reason that I had the ability to do these great things was because G-d gave us the freedom to choose to do so?
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