[Avodah] running a seder

[Eli Turkel]

Forget about simcha - what about cheirus? Is this how a free man eats?
Matzah maror and soup?

While the dilemma of trying to balance everything on the night of the seder
is indeed a difficult one, I don't see this as being a solution.>>

There was an article in the JP of friday. Asher Meir points out
that the slaves in America had a higher standard of living then after
emancipation. From the complaints in Chumash it is conceivable that the
Jews ate better in Egypt as slaves then in the desert.
Bottom line there is no connection between slavery and eating well
it is the festival of freedom and not the festival of prosperity

Having a big fancy seder meal is a modern Jewish concept. I doubt that
the Jews of the shtetl had very fancy meals.

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Eli Turkel