[Avodah] More on the Seder

[Yitzchok Levine]

Reb Zalman Alpert sent me the following:

I heard from Rabbi Avrohom Hoffman of Cong Shaare Hatikvah in 
Washington Heights that his rebbe,  the late Rabbi Simon Schwab, 
ZT"L,  was upset one year when a group of guests at his seder table 
were learning rather than paying attention to the proceedings. Rav 
Schwab nicely urged them to go to the living room to continue 
learning,  "Here we are having a seder and telling of the story of 
Yetzias Mitzraim. This is not the time for learning. It is the time 
for listening and retelling the story."

This too is a very important lesson to keep in mind today with the 
proliferation of lomdishe haggados etc.

Yitzchok Levine 
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