Pesach: The Arba Banim From the Pesukim

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Where does the Torah speak of four sons when it never says chacham, rasha, tam or she'eino yodea lishol? Chazal read four pesukim in Shemos and Devarim and saw that each question is worded differently, so each points to a different child. The Haggadah's answers to the chacham and the rasha differ from the pesukim, and the real lesson is that no one answer fits every child. The first rasha at a Seder was Esav.

Key points

• Many Rishonim call Baruch HaMakom a quasi Birchas HaTorah before darshaning the pesukim.
• In Rashi's reading, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim so that we could do the mitzvos.
• The rasha asks what you are doing, and so separates himself from the Seder.
• The word v'af means teaching the chacham all of hilchos Pesach, up to ein maftirin.
• The Torah gives the rasha no reply, and we learn that we do not debate him.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Baruch HaMakom as Birchas HaTorah
2. 2:31The first pasuk and Rashi on Pesach
3. 6:45Vehigadta and the reason for yetzias Mitzrayim
4. 9:01Ma zos and the pasuk in Devarim
5. 14:12Matching four pesukim to four sons
6. 22:20The Haggadah's answer to the chacham
7. 26:09Answering the rasha
8. 33:00Esav at the first Seder

Topics

• Arba Banim
• Haggadah
• Pesach
• Seder