[Avodah] Hallel at the seder

[Zev Sero]

Seth Mandel wrote:

> The R’MO adds that this is so that 
> people can read sections in Hallel responsively, and the Mishna B’rurah 
> explains that there is no requirement as far as bentching goes, the 
> whole issue is so that Hallel can be read responsively at the Seder.
> [...] I have never seen this responsive 
> reading done, outside of by RYBS.  I have also asked someone who is very 
> knowledgeable about Hungarian customs, and he confirmed that, as far as 
> he knew, there was no custom to read any part of Hallel responsively in 
> Hungary.  Various pollaks and litvaks have told me the same.  (RYBS’s 
> practices is no proof, since it is well known that Briskers had their 
> own ideas about minhogim.)
> 
> So: does anyone know of any communities where they practiced responsive 
> reading of Hallel during the Seder?  The only one I know of is the 
> Teimanim, both the Baladi and Shami, who do responsive reading for the 
> entire Hallel, as they do in shul.  But it would be exceedingly strange 
> if the only community that followed the M’habber and the R’MO were to be 
> the Teimanim, who do not accept the p’sak of the M’habber and the R’MO 
> as binding…

I assume they are talking not about saying the whole hallel responsively,
since most people don't do this even in shul, but about Hodu Lashem and
Ono Hashem, which are said responsively in shul, and in my experience
-- admittedly even more limited than yours -- at the seder.  It never
occurred to me that not everybody does this.

The MB (422:18) also says that if saying hallel alone, and there are
two other people available, one should get them to answer for Hodu
Lashem, even on days when there's no question about the bracha.

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