Sunday, April 5, 2009
11 Nissan (Pesach)
The Torah asks the Questions of the Chacham and the Rasha. The Chacham's question is asked in Devarim 6,20 "Ki yishalcha bincha machar leimor ma ha'aidus vihachukim vihamishpatim..." (When your son asks you tomorrow saying what are the testimonies and decrees and laws...). And the Rasha's question is in Shemos 12,26 "Vihaya ki yomru alaichem bineichem ma ha'avodah hazos lachem". (And it will be when your sons say to you what is this service to you?). The problem is why doesn't the haggada use the answer that the Torah gives of: for the Chacham: "Viamarta livincha Avadim hayinu liparoh... Vayiten Hashem osos umophsim... Viosanu hotzi... Vayitzavenu Hashem la'asos.... Utzdakkah tihyeh lanu..." (And you will say to your son we were servants to Pharaoh... And Hashem put signs and wonders... And we were taken out... And Hashem commanded us to do... And it will be a merit to us...) And for the Rasha: "Viamatem zevach pesach hu lahashem asher pasach... Ve'es bateinu hitzil" (And you will say it is a Pesach offering to Hashem that he passed over... And our households he saved). There's no reason seemingly for the Ba'al Haggada to not use the Torah's answer so why not use it. We're not going to Chas Veshalom say he's smarter than the Torah so how can the Haggada give a different answer?
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