Pesach: Ha Lachma Anya Through V'hi She'amda

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why make a Seder with simcha while we are still in golus? From Yetzias Mitzrayim we became Am Hashem, so the geula is guaranteed. Following the Haggadah commentary of the author of the Nesivos HaMishpat, we learn the four sons as four ways of coming to recognize Hashem, and Mitzrayim as a crucible that purified Klal Yisrael. Hashem watching over us in golus, even bringing the keitz early, is what stood by us in every generation.

Key points

• Becoming Am Hashem at Yetzias Mitzrayim guarantees the geula, so even in golus we celebrate.
• The four sons are four ways to Hashem: creation, Torah, being taught, and not at all.
• The commentary reads three pshatim in ein maftirin as answering edos, chukim and mishpatim.
• Mitzrayim was a crucible that purified Klal Yisrael of the tumah from Adam HaRishon's chet.
• Harsher suffering purified them sooner, so Hashem took them out after 210 years instead of 400.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Recap of Ha Lachma Anya
2. 3:24The four questions of Mah Nishtana
3. 4:41We were slaves and Hashem's nissim
4. 12:29Baruch HaMakom and the four sons
5. 17:43The Chacham's question and answer
6. 23:08The Rasha's question
7. 28:47Yachol MeRosh Chodesh
8. 32:44Where we came from and purification
9. 43:17Hashem keeping His promise and the keitz
10. 51:10What stood for us in every generation

Topics

• Haggadah
• Yetzias Mitzrayim
• Pesach