[Avodah] Moshe's name in the haggadah.

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 04:27 -0700, Simon Montagu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recall hearing as a child that the Haggadah makes no mention of Moses
> > anywhere. Obviously, if we look at a haggadah today, there is an
> > explicit reference to Moses, by Rabbi Yossi Hag'lili. Was this statement
> > that Moses isn't in the haggadah a complete fabrication, or is there a
> > source (and a girsa) to justify this statement?
> 
> 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.

Let me ask my question differently. There's certainly a girsa that
justifies this statement -- namely, the Rambam's girsa, which omits RYHG
completely. However, this statement which I heard (and which you can
find by googling it) wouldn't be based on a girsa that we no longer use
-- it must be quoted from somewhere, from someone who based himself on a
girsa that we no longer use. Who is being quoted?

--Ken