The Bread of Poverty - Pesach's Haggadah Part 2 - Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

We're on. Okay. In the Art Scroll family Haggadah, on page 25. We think of the Haggadah as the program for the evening, but one of the 15 steps called Maggid, which is the same word as Haggadah. And Maggid means to uh declare. That is, you could tell a story, but you're telling a story as authoritative presentation that makes a declaration. And the the possuk that we're fulfilling is we got to the ben choy should tell and declare to your children. Um And this this this starts Maggid. And unlike the rest of the Haggadah, these first lines are in Aramaic. And they were added These are things that were said leading up to the Seder. >> [snorts] >> Some were said in the afternoon, as we'll say, not not in the evening. They couldn't have been said in the evening. And they were included because they were customarily associated with the event. Not because if they were uh original content of the of the Haggadah. Now, your translation right, this is the bread of affliction. I think that's probably by far the most common translation. I don't think it's correct. The word in Hebrew and Aramaic is an an- which comes from the root which means only which means poor or only which means poverty. Poverty means deprivation. It means you don't have the normal run of facilities and and resources that people normally have. But it doesn't speak about how you feel about that. There are people who want to live without material possessions. They go off into the forest. It's not obvious that they're suffering all the time. So, I don't think that this is necessarily appropriate translation. This is the bread of I would have written poverty.

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