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This Year in Jerusalem
 
Posted: 30 Mar 2007 09:55 AM CDT
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2007/03/this-year-in-jerusalem.shtml


The first Satmerer Rebbe, R Yoel Teitelbaum, writes the following thought in Vayoel Moshe.

When Yaakov first meets Rachel, he is at a well with some shepherds, waiting for enough to come by to move the stone that protects the well. As she approaches, he asks the shepherds if all is well with his cousin Lavan, and they answer, All peaceful, vehinei Racheil bito baah im hatzon  and here is Racheil his daughter, coming with the flock. (Bereishis 29:6)

A few lines later, When he is still speaking to them, veRacheil baah im hatzon  and Racheil came with the flock that belongs to her father. (Ibid v 9)

Notice that one time baah is used to mean that Racheil was on her way, the other that she had arrived already. Rashi clarifies with a grammatical point; it makes a difference which syllable gets the trop mark and stress. The first usage was baAH, with the stress on the second syllable, meaning she is coming. The second, BAah  she came.

Everyone assumes that the line said at the end of Yom Kippur and the Pesach Seder is Leshanah haBAah biYrushalayim  The coming year in Jerusalem. But the Satmar Rav said this is a mistake.

We voice this desire at the close of Yom Kippur, shortly after the year began on Rosh haShanah, and on Pesach, shortly after the beginning of the year of months, the beginning of Nissan. We say it when a year just arrived. The line should not be said with the stress as baAH but rather say BAah  We are speaking of the year that just came!

Leshanah habaAH biYrushalayim habenuyah!

May the year that just began be spent in a rebuilt Jerusalem!



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Hagaddah
 
Posted: 30 Mar 2007 09:45 AM CDT
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2007/03/hagaddah.shtml


A couple of years ago I collected some of my own thoughts and others from around the web into a commentary on the Haggadah shel Pesach.

I took special care to give the seider a definite structure, as in this blog entry, in accordance with the meaning of the word seider, order.

Earlier divrei Torah for Pesach:

Toras Aish 5756, Sweet Charoses

Toras Aish 5761 The Four Sons Confront Tragedy

Toras Aish 5762 Lekhem Oni and Packing Peanuts

Aspaqlaria 5764 Who Knows Four?


This posting includes a media file: http://www.aishdas.org/seder.pdf

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