[Avodah] A New Mitzvah at the Seder

[allan.engel at mail.gmail.com]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 00:59, Prof. L. Levine wrote:
> I have maintained for a long time that the yeshivas and Bais Yaakovs wreck
> the Seder each year. To me it is clear from the Gemara in Pesachim that in
> the time of the Gemara young children came to the Seder not knowing what to
> expect.  They were not primed with booklets filled with divrei Torah.
> Today the children know "everything" since they are taught all sorts of
> things about the seder.
>
> I believe that Rav Shimon Schwab also felt to some extent the way I do.
...

I have often contended that, in the era of the Korban Pesach, an average
person would not have the expertise or equipment to calculate Chatzos
Layla, and that therefore the people must have been careful to finish
eating the Korban early in the night, so as not to transgress the D'oraysa
(in the same way as we stop eating Chametz long before Chatzos Yom on the
14th Nissan).

This would suggest short Sedarim.