Rabbi Arthur Waskow writes, "Our custom is that soon after we begin, we ask those present to begin lifting and explaining their freedom-object. One year it was a just-completed 500-page book for one person, a single gold coin that another's father had brought out of Germany as a last-ditch economic prop in case destitution were descending; for another, a watch (about liberation from rigid time-rules); for another, nothing -- as an `object' of freedom from the rule that something should be brought."