The Experiential Seder - Pesach's Haggadah Part 3 - Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb (Jewish Philosophy)

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Okay, in the arts goal family I got a on page 27. And what we ended with last time was the observation that reciting the Haggadah is not primarily a matter of absorbing new information absorbing new information or achieving greater understanding and depth. And it's not that because the middle paragraph on the page on page 27 says even if you're all men of wisdom, understanding, experience, knowledge of the Torah it would still be an obligation upon us to tell the Exodus from Egypt. So it means if we're all men of wisdom, understanding, experience, and knowledge of Torah, we're not going to learn anything new. And chances are we're not going to And chances are we're not going to achieve any greater deeper understanding. And still it would be a mitzvah to do so. Well then, the mitzvah isn't to learn new information or to get deeper understanding. And then I quote the name of Rav Volman, it says the more one tells about the more one speaks about the Exodus, the more praiseworthy he is. And that's not the normal rule for communicating information or understanding. They are brevity. Say a few words as you need to Say a few words as you need to just to get the meaning across. Don't add words. Don't add extra words. So that again indicates that that's not the purpose of it. Now there are different ways to explain what the purpose is. But the way that Rav Volman explained it, the way that I've said over it every year in his name is that it's to create the experience of the Exodus. To relive the experience of the Exodus. As you will see now, the next few paragraphs are a little bit mysterious unless you have this idea in mind. If you have this

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