[Avodah] Moshe's name in the haggadah.

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:27:44AM -0700, Simon Montagu wrote:
: Moses' name appears at the end of a pasuk in RYHG's derasha, and the
: derasha is based on the beginning of the pasuk. I have always assumed
: that the original girsa only quoted "Vayar' Yisrael et hayad hagedola"
: and later versions added the rest of the verse. I have no sources, but
: it makes sense to me.

I'm not sure we were ever nohagim to read half a pasuq. Maybe up to the
esnachta at beMitzrayim, is arguably permitted. (A discussion we had
WRT the first words of Fri night qiddush.) But my first instinct would
be that the original girsa also had the entire pasuq.

However, to say that something dragged in like this kele'akheir yad,
just to complete the pasuq, qualifies as mentioning Moshe, is also
questionable. Perhaps citations were altogether excluded from the decision
not to distract with mention of MRAH.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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