More Passover Haggadah

Table Of Contents of my Passover Articles

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• The Haftorah For Shabbos HaGadol, Serving G-d and Not Serving Yourself
• We’re Leaving Mitzrayim, Are You In?
• Why We Need The Symbols Of Slavery Also on the Table
• The Second Half Of Maggid Starting With “Metchila Ovday…”
• The Seder Night As the Vehicle of Passing Over the Tradition to the Children and Grandchildren
• A Collection of Individual Points on the Story of the Exodus
• More On The Passover Haggadah
• Seder Night and the Day After
• The Last Day of Pesach, What Was Revealed At the Splitting of the Sea
• Reciting Shiras Hayam Joyfully as if I Passed Through the Sea

More Passover Haggadah

Passover this year, Passover 2011, starts on Monday April 18 at sundown, like every chag, (Jewish holidays), starts at sundown. Therefore the Passover Seder is done then on Monday night.

A major part of the Passover Seder is the reading of the Passover Haggadah, through which we fulfill the Mitzvah of the Torah, “You Shall Tell Your Son”, on Pesach.

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More About Passover Haggadah

As a continuation of my previous post, for some more about Passover Haggadah: Before we start delving into the meat of the Exodus story, we have one of the steps of the Passover Seder: Yachatz.

Yachatz

At Yachatz we break the middle Matzah, the bigger half we put away to be the “Afikomen” later, and the smaller half we replace as the middle Matzah over which we say the Maggid, the recitation of the whole Exodus story.

It says in the sefarim that the Afikomen relates more the future redemption, that from Tzafun and (the second half of) Hallel we already feel and appreciate the future redemption. If I understand the symbolism correctly, the fact that we put the bigger half away for the Afikomen tells us that after everything that we saw in Egypt, we still haven’t seen even 50% of what there is going to be.

Stay tuned …