[Avodah] lirot et azmo

[Eli Turkel]

moved from areivim

<<I quoted from R. Meidan that the basis of the hagada is applications
to each generation and not a history lesson

Yosef Skolnick responded.

Sorry while that is a wonderful idea, I can't really see it coming from this
idea/concept.  It says kiilu hu yatza meimitzraim. Nothing about
comparisons.  I humbly submit that it is a lesson in the power of imagery.>>

I later saw similar ideas in the hagada Exalted Evening based on shiurim of
RYBS.

On "bchol dor vedor" he says
Li-reot means to experience to feel to re-experience the slavery and Exodus
It should not be an ancient event lying in the dawn of history and having no
relevance to us.
I am to re-experience. Memory in Judaism means not just to remember
tecnically but to
relive the event

On the 5 sages in Bnei Brak he brings the Maggidim that connect it to the
Bar Kochba revolt.
it was not only the story of the past ...;it was the story of the present
and what was going to happen tomorrow. The study of the Exodus was supposed
to guide them in their revolt...
They studies Yetziat Mitzrayim not only as an event of the past but also as
a clue
and a key to the future.
...
They spoke of the Exodus "the whole night" not only the night of Passover
but also the
great night of the Galut, of Jewish exile.
...
If a man leaves his fate to the principles of blind mechanical causality and
circumstantial
determination he can never attain salvation and redemption.

Rav Meidan also interpreted the long night as the exile and expanded on
passages in
Yoel and about Chezkiyau demonstrating that the leeson of the exodus was
used
in all generations to address contemporaneous problems.



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Eli Turkel
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