[Avodah] Sifsei Chaim: How to fulfill sipur yetzias Mitzrayim

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:12:07AM -0400, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
: How to fulfill the mitzvah of Sipur Yetzi'as Mitzrayim
: Rabbi Chaim Friedlander
: Published in Sifsei Chaim, Mo???adim, vol. 2
: Translated by Yitzchak Schaffer

As a point of comparison, not that I consider myself a bar pelugta, I
recently wrote on the subject.
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2010/03/structure-of-maggid.shtm

I took the mishnah, and suggested that a literal read says that
three chiyuvim go into maggid:

1- Sipur, in Q&A form, where the answer has to be maschilin begenus
umesaymim beshevach.
This then has two variants:
1a- Shemu'el: Hashem provides physical redemption, and we respond with
    talmud Torah (Four sons, Yachol meiRC, etc...)
1b- Rav: Hashem provides spiritual redemption, which (Vehi sheAmedah)
    anchors our physical existence

2- Derashah - Arami oveid avi, counting maalos tovos, makos, etc..

3- R' Gamliel - linking to mitzvos halaylah and thus "lir'os/lehar'os
    atzmo", from which (lefikhakh) we get a chiyuv to say Hallel at night.

BTW, the way I analyzed the seder, Ha Lachma Anya is part of Yachatz,
not Maggid. It explains the broken matzah.

Maggid is what we do when the 2nd cup is before us, and starts with the
child's questions. (Or his father's fill-in.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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