[Avodah] running a seder

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 19:59:15 PDT 2009


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

-- 
Eli Turkel"

Do you have a source?

AFAIK the minhag was to display the finest silver on Seder Night despite the year-round restriction of zecher lehurban!

Sounds implicit to me that conspicuous prosperity is indeed a function of heirus

Gutn Mo'ed
RRW
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