[Avodah] Avos uBanim

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:59:41AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: On the words "veshinantem levanecha" Rashi says, "velo livnosecha" -- i.e.,  
: there is no obligation of Torah learning for a daughter...

But, as RAM pointed out, this goes beyond veshinantam levanekha. If
there are no children at the table, the wife is supposed to ask her
husband the 4 kashehs.

So there is clearly a gender-equality to this chiyuv that isn't present
in teaching Torah; even though the format of sippur YM is very much
oriented to be that of talmud Torah.

: There's also the well-known vort about the she'eino yodea lish'ol being the  
: child who is too young to ask questions, where it says "At pesach lo" -- "you" 
:  in loshon nekeva, suggesting that the mother is the one who should teach the 
:  young child about Yetzias Mitzrayim.  

Not really, since the verb is "petach" (lashon zachar). Either we

1- simply acknowledge the grammatical oddity as probably being something
prosaic, like a dropped vowel (atah -> at); or

2- we go midrashic and it must be a woman acting like a man; or

3- the more obvious derashah (as we actually find in haggados) a man
must contact his "feminine side" when teaching.

:-)||ii!
-Micha

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