On this Passover Yizkor, Rabbi Oren Hayon reflects on the Osage orange tree, a species that “remembers” a world shaped by now‑vanished mammoths and other Ice Age megafauna. Drawing a parallel to our own lives, he explores how we, too, carry the imprint of relationships that once carried us farther than we could travel on our own. Rabbi Hayon invites us into a kind of “spiritual archaeology,” tracing the fossils of Jewish history at the Passover seder and the tender artifacts of our loved ones’ lives—their phrases, habits, and values. The sermon becomes a gentle guide for mourners who arrive at Yizkor “out with lanterns looking for ourselves,” seeking light in a landscape transformed by loss.