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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2023, 03:37:26 AM »
At the seder I had been using a simple one with just instructions. My kids are young; I need to explain the basics to them and there isn't time for extras.
Agav, in shana rishona I was zoche to be by Rav Berkovits's seder. There were mostly adults at the seder, but the Rav simply read each paragraph and explained what was going on, then did the next one the same way. So I modeled my seder after his.
This year I printed out a hagada with stuff I want to say typed in. There's a mix of paragraph explanations for the adults and some silly stuff to keep the kids focused.

The Rav said something I never heard before, but maybe this is basic: "Ma nishtana" is a statement, not a question. It translates as "How different this night is from all the other nights!" (That explains "four questions" not five.)
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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2023, 06:18:42 AM »
At the seder I had been using a simple one with just instructions. My kids are young; I need to explain the basics to them and there isn't time for extras.
Agav, in shana rishona I was zoche to be by Rav Berkovits's seder. There were mostly adults at the seder, but the Rav simply read each paragraph and explained what was going on, then did the next one the same way. So I modeled my seder after his.
This year I printed out a hagada with stuff I want to say typed in. There's a mix of paragraph explanations for the adults and some silly stuff to keep the kids focused.

The Rav said something I never heard before, but maybe this is basic: "Ma nishtana" is a statement, not a question. It translates as "How different this night is from all the other nights!" (That explains "four questions" not five.)
interesting.
The lashon hamishna might be meduyak ...
מזגו לו כוס שני, וכאן הבן שואל אביו.
ואם אין דעת בבן, אביו מלמדו, מה נשתנה הלילה הזה מכל הלילות, שבכל הלילות.....
Perhaps it should have first said what the Ben is sho'el and then ואם אין דעת בבן, אביו מלמדו
Perhaps וכאן הבן שואל אביו. is referring to Stam all the questions of the night and ואם אין דעת בבן, אביו מלמדו is the statement.

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2023, 07:02:30 AM »
At the seder I had been using a simple one with just instructions. My kids are young; I need to explain the basics to them and there isn't time for extras.
Don't feel bad. You are doing the Mitzvah for your children exactly as you should! ...והגדת לבנך

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2023, 07:58:34 AM »
Don't feel bad. You are doing the Mitzvah for your children exactly as you should! ...והגדת לבנך
at the Seder I use my kids hagadas. They take turns sitting next to me. Anything I want to add is baal peh

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2023, 09:57:04 AM »
at the Seder I use my kids hagadas. They take turns sitting next to me. Anything I want to add is baal peh
Love that. I also try to prepare before Pesach on my own.

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2023, 12:39:55 AM »
Don't feel bad. You are doing the Mitzvah for your children exactly as you should! ...והגדת לבנך
I don't feel bad at all.  8)
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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2023, 07:20:17 AM »
I stopped stuffing Dvar Torahs years ago, at most a few cute and short ones.
Story telling for the different ages and singing together.
I believe one of the important factors is happy family quality time intertwined with our heritage.
Missing one of those two defies the purpose in my opinion.

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2023, 12:01:21 PM »
R Matisyahu Solomon says party of the vihigadeta is to make it dramatic (said with British accent)
Feelings don't care about your facts

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2023, 12:31:02 PM »
R Matisyahu Solomon says party of the vihigadeta is to make it dramatic (said with British accent)

Even if your kids don't understand a British accent?

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Re: Which hagagdah do you use? (to prepare for/lead the seder) + Share a DT
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2023, 05:11:16 PM »
There is a great sefer that really depicts vividly the stories of Yetziyas Mitzrayim, in Hebrew, but in a very understandable way. Yalkut Me'am Loez - but not in the actual Hagaddah section. Instead, look in the section on the parsha. He goes through every makkah with spellbinding details. (The hagaddah part is great also, but I find the parsha part more exciting. The hagaddah part is printed in the back of that volume, on Shemos Va'aira and Bo.)

https://seforimcenter.com/Yalkut-MeAm-Loez--Shemot-1--Haggadah-[Menukad]__p-7052.aspx

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