Pesach: The Haggadah's Drasha on Arami Oved Avi

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How does the Haggadah expand the last two of the four pesukim of the Mitzrayim story? Each word of Vanitzak and of the pasuk that follows is read as its own suffering or its own act of Hashem, mostly following the Nesivos. A second drasha makes each of the five phrases a pair, giving the ten makkos, and another commentary pairs the first five makkos with the last five.

Key points

• Hashem heard a cry not addressed to Him, the Nesivos says, because of the bris of the Avos.
• The Nesivos compares Hashem's use of the destroyer at makas bechoros to a man using a haomer.
• In the Haggadah, yad chazaka is dever, the end of the first five makkos.
• One pshat: the staff turning into a snake showed the tumah of the nachash turning back to kedusha.
• One commentary has the makkos rise from lowest to highest, pairing the first with the sixth.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Measuring a kezayis of matzah
2. 2:15Review of the first two pesukim
3. 6:56Vanitzak and the minhag to shout
4. 14:08Anyeinu, amaleinu and lachatzeinu
5. 18:27The last pasuk: not through a malach
6. 26:09Yad chazaka and zeroa netuya
7. 29:36Mora gadol and the Choze of Lublin
8. 35:25Otos and mofsim
9. 40:43Second drasha: the ten makkos
10. 44:07The order of the makkos
11. 48:22Gematria of the ten makkos
12. 54:33Preview: makkos at the Yam Suf

Topics

• Haggadah
• Magid
• Makkos
• Pesach