Riveting Series on Reasons of the Seder and Haggadah

Digging past and beyond the Haggadah’s and seder night’s stories and beloved divrei Torah, Rabbi Eliyahu Rapoport unveils an engagingly clear-headed and replete historiography of the seder and Haggadah, championing the foundational explanations, purposes and structures.

Digging past and beyond the Haggadah’s and seder night’s stories and beloved divrei Torah, Rabbi Rapoport unveils an engagingly clear-headed and replete historiography of the seder and Haggadah, championing the foundational explanations, purposes and structures.

Drawing from a rich and varied palette of sources, commentaries and scholarly works on the seder and haggadah, the series traverses the spectrum of insights from the Mishna, Gemora, Rishonim, and winds its way through the contemporary works such as Rebbe’s seminal commentary on the Haggadah as well as Rabbi Daniel Goldschmidt’s Haggadah and others.

The presentation has covered many fascinating topics, with beautiful attention given to the anatomy of the seder plate, its history origins, theories and evolution; observations on the primacy of the interested child at the seder; recognizing the fluid interplay between כי ישאלך בנך and והגדת
לבנך and its halachic ramifications; and the rhythms and patterns in the concept of “starting with
indignancies and ending with praiseworthiness” as they appear in the Haggdah’s account.

The series also discovers and re-discovers original takes on terms and customs.

While it is a satisfying cliche to innovate more questions than answers after a well delivered master class, Rabbi Rapoport’s tour de force through the most famous book and the most popular event in the Jewish world will provide a tapestry of answers to enjoy and treasure.

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