Pesach: Yachol MeRosh Chodesh Through Vehi She'amda

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

When does the mitzvah of sippur yetzias Mitzrayim begin? The beraisa in the Haggadah rules out Rosh Chodesh, when Moshe Rabbeinu was told the halachos of Pesach, and the daytime of Pesach, since ba'avur zeh ties the telling to the time matzah and maror are in front of us. The matzah and maror are part of the story, not props. From there the Haggadah turns to our spiritual low point, the bris bein habesarim and V'hi She'amda.

Key points

• In the beraisa, ba'avur zeh ties the telling to the night, when matzah and maror lie before us.
• Against the custom in Shulchan Aruch, the Vilna Gaon objects to reading the Haggadah on Shabbos HaGadol.
• The Rambam writes that in Mitzrayim we were a hairbreadth from forgetting all Avraham Avinu taught.
• Rashi teaches that Esav went to Seir by choice, not wanting to go down to Mitzrayim.
• Rashi counts the 400 years from Yitzchak's birth, with only 210 spent in Mitzrayim.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Yachol meRosh Chodesh in the Haggadah
2. 7:51Early Yom Tov and the Seder
3. 9:48Reading the Haggadah on Shabbos HaGadol
4. 11:40Mitchila ovdei avodah zarah
5. 14:46The Rambam's history of avodah zarah
6. 23:33The pasuk in Yehoshua and Esav
7. 30:09The bris bein habesarim
8. 36:23Covering the matzah for V'hi She'amda

Topics

• Sippur Yetzias Mitzrayim
• Haggadah
• Bris Bein HaBesarim
• Shabbos HaGadol