[Avodah] More on the Seder

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R’ YL:
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." 
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That's how I feel when I see a bunch of people leave a wedding to daven
Maariv, and about the new-fangled "Yeshivas Mordechai Hatzaddik." Thoughts?

KT,
MYG