We name each section of the Haggadah, and the first section is called "Kadesh". This is an odd title; "Kiddush [Sanctification]" is the proper name for the action we perform, while "Kadesh [Sanctify!]" is an imperative, a command.
Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook viewed this, indeed, as a command. He wrote, in his characteristically florid poetry:
The
most active root of sanctification, the individual's, with which we act
upon the day, emerges with the departure from Egypt, with the
revelation of implemented truth, immutable in the radiance with which it
affects each individual. This is the power of freedom, the departure
from the house of slaves...
Therefore,
with holy emotion, all declare on the night of the sanctification of
this holiday - the source and foundation for all of the Divine holidays
preserving the national memory... the wealth of the points of life added
on that holiday on each specific level of Israel's holiness - this
holiday which sanctifies the times, on this day it is declared to each
Jew that he must recognize the worth of his actions, planting
righteousness and receiving a reward of truth: Kadesh!
(Olat Re'iyyah: Haggadah shel Pesach, Kadesh)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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