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.
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.
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Author: Boruch Rappaport
