All who are hungry --come and eat; In this sentence, the Haggadah is asking us which of these two categories we fall under. Are we here because
acarpous PRONUNCIATION: (ay-KAHR-puhs) MEANING: adjective: Not producing fruit; sterile. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek akarpos, from a- (not) + karpos (fruit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kerp- (to gather or harvest) which is also the source of harvest, excerpt, carpet, and scarce. ...
* Man spends all for a tiny whistle, but in the end it does not blow." Rav Yisroel Salanter
* At the Pesach table, don't just read the Haggadah -- live it!
http://artscroll.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/the-kosher-kitchen-ch-15.pdf ...
Ingredients
“And the Egyptians did evil to us.” This refers to Pharaoh saying, “Let us outsmart them, lest they
Rav Kook in the Olat Reiya says that the sandwich is to remind us that we cannot separate the sense of Avdut – Servitude from the sense of freedom. It is this which allows us to eat in an entirely spiritual state. ...
Those things that come naturally to a person do not need Yesurin- Afflictions - to be achieved. However, those things that are beyond nature necessitate suffering because they take us beyond our physical existence. For example; prophecy came through a breaking of the body....
We previously mentioned that according to the Rambam the increased pain and suffering accelerated the redemption. This is important for us to understand in order to explain why we have a symbol of our suffering after the Matzah, the symbol of...
Chazal say that it was in the merit of Yitzchak Avinu that we were redeemed from Egypt, and redeemed early. The middle Matzah represents Yitzchak. The Gematria of Yitzchak is changed when his name is changed to ישחק. The diifference is 210, corresponding to...
In Kabbalah, Karpas represents Din. (See Shelah HaKodesh, Masechet Pesachim, Chelek Matzah Shemura #149 for a more detailed explanation.) The salt represents harshness. Karpas = Samach Perach. The act of dipping represents the softening of Din. *See also the Ishbitzer who explains the...
Teshuva is referred to metaphorically in Tanach as washing. There are two washings in the Seder, Urchatz and Rachtza the first without a Beracha, the second, with a Beracha. He explains that there is a concept of Teshuva on Teshuva; The first Teshuva...