[Avodah] The youngest child (was: Does "ben" mean "son" or "child"?)

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah V37n14, R'Micha responded to R'AMiller:
> Having the youngest ask does seem
to be a minhag that arose in comparatively recent times, given that I
also failed to find a maqor. <
Perhaps it's part&parcel of evoking questions from the
might-soon-fall-asleep'ers that (after a series of
questionable/strange/unusual pre-"Maggid" actions) they themselves are
bidden to formally "ask"/state/exclaim/sing "Mah nishtanah" (in a typical
Yuntef meal, they are not given a leading role), much less do so about
future actions (e.g. the 2nd dipping).

All the best from
*Michael Poppers* * Elizabeth, NJ, USA
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