Pesach: Darshening Arami Oved Avi in the Haggadah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Haggadah darshen the pesukim of mikra bikurim from Parashas Ki Savo, word by word? The Mishnah sets this order, and the Baal Haggadah takes each phrase back to Chumash Shemos, or to Navi, where the story really happened. The Vilna Gaon explains why the account opens with Lavan. We follow pasuk hey through pasuk ches, reaching the Haggadah's teaching that Hashem took us out Himself, not through a malach.

Key points

• The Vilna Gaon sees Yaakov's flight from Lavan as the pattern for leaving Mitzrayim.
• The Baal Haggadah reads vayagar sham: Yaakov Avinu came to sojourn in Mitzrayim, not to settle.
• The Gemara tells of babies hidden in the ground who sprouted like grass.
• The Arizal added the Yechezkel pasuk about blood, read here as dam Pesach and dam milah.
• Es Avraham es Yitzchak comes, in one commentary's reading, to include the Imahos in the bris.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The Mishnah's instruction on Arami Oved Avi
2. 2:48Mikra bikurim in Parashas Ki Savo
3. 8:42The Vilna Gaon on Lavan and Mitzrayim
4. 14:06Reading pasuk hey in the Haggadah
5. 16:27Vayered Mitzrayim and vayagar sham
6. 21:37Verov and the pasuk in Yechezkel
7. 23:52The Gemara on the hidden children
8. 28:55The pasuk the Arizal added
9. 31:45Pasuk vav and pasuk zayin
10. 42:08Pasuk ches and not through a malach

Topics

• Haggadah
• Arami Oved Avi
• Pesach
• Mikra Bikurim