Maggid

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Mitzvah of Sippur Yetsiat Mitzrayim

  1. There is a positive mitzvah from the Torah to explain the story of the Jewish people leaving Egypt (Sippur Yetziat Mitzrayim) on Pesach night. [1] Some suggest that if no one asks any questions, there is only a rabbinic mitzvah to discuss the story of Yitziyat Mitzrayim. [2]
  2. One should have intent before beginning Maggid that is fulfilling the mitzvah of Sippur Yetsiat Mitzrayim. [3]
  3. One should only start the Haggadah after Tzet HaKochavim. [4]
  4. The mitzvah of Sippur Yetsiat Mitrayim is to explain to one’s sons and daughter according to their understanding. [5]
  5. The entire Haggadah from Ha Lachma Anaya can be said in the common language so that everyone understands. [6]
  6. One’s son should ask the questions in order to explain Yetsiat Mitzrayim. If one doesn’t have a son, one’s daughter should ask. [7] If one doesn’t have children, one’s wife should ask. If two people are together, they should ask one another. If one is alone, one should ask oneself. Grandchildren are like children regarding this mitzvah. [8]
  7. Not everyone at the table must say over the story of Yetsiat Mitzrayim or read the entire Haggadah but rather it’s sufficient that one person at the table explains the story of Yetsiat Mitzrayim and reads the Haggadah while everyone else listens and pays attention. [9]
  8. Women are also obligated in Sippur Yetsiat Mitzrayim, yet they shouldn’t fulfill the obligation of men by reading it aloud and having men listen, nonetheless after the fact men have fulfilled the obligation. [10]
  9. Blind people are also obligated in reading the Haggadah. [11]
  10. Even if one doesn’t have Matzah and Maror should still say the Haggadah. [12]

Someone who has small children

  1. Someone who doesn’t have time and has to say Maggid in a big rush should say the paragraph of Avadim Hayinu עבדים היינו which fulfills the mitzvah Deoritta of Sippur Yetsiat Mitzrayim. [13]
  2. If one has little children who can’t stay up too late, one should go through the Haggadah quicker so that the children are able to participate in the other מצות of the night. [14]
  3. For a person who has small children and the essentials of the Haggadah to be said are Kiddish, Ha Lachma Anaya, Mah Nishtana, Avadim Hayinu, Metechila Ovdei Ovoda Zara, Baruch HaMakom, 4 sons, Arami Oved Avi, (Rabban Gamliel), the beginning of Hallel, Birkat HaMazon, and the end of Hallel. [15]

Ha Lachma Anaya

  1. The smaller piece of the broken matzah should be placed between the other two Matzot and put it back on the Kaarah. [16]
  2. One should raise the Kaarah for Ha Lachma Anya. Some have the custom just to raise the broken piece of Matza.[17]

Mah Nishtana

  1. One should remove the Kaarah from the table before Mah Nishtana to get the children to ask.[18] Some have the custom only to remove the broken piece of Matzah. Others have the custom to announce the removal of the Kaarah but not actual do so. [19]
  2. When the children ask why is the Kaareh being removed one should answer that this is to show that one is not to eat before fulfilling Sippur Yetsiat Mitzrayim. [20]
  3. Nowadays when it’s unclear from our actions of dipping the food and by leaning while eating that we are displaying actions of royalty, the after should answer the child’s recital of the Mah Nishtana with an explanation of such. [21]
  4. If the child said Mah Nishtana, some say that the one running the Seder doesn’t have to repeat the Mah Nishtana [22], while others suggest that one should do so. [23]
  5. Even if the child asks a question related to the seder the one running the Seder should still read the Mah Nishtana. [24]
  6. The second cup is poured after the Mah Nishtana to get the children to ask. [25]
  7. The captions underneath the pictures on the side of the Haggadah is permissible to read on Yom Tov. [26]

Avadim Hayinu

  1. From Avadim Hayinu to the end of Maggid, the matzot should be exposed, this duration is considered the primary recital of the Haggadag. [27]

Rabban Gamliel

  1. Some say that if one didn't say the statement of Rabban Gamliel one has fulfilled one's mitzvah of Haggadah (if one does speak about Yetziyat Mitzrayim) but not in the most preferable fashion. [28]

Eating during Maggid

  1. If there’s a need it’s permissible to eat vegetables or fruit or drink something which is invalid for the 4 cups of wine during the reading of the Haggadah (Maggid). [29]

Bracha at end of Maggid

  1. The minhag is to say מן הזבחים ומן הפסחים in the Bracha of אשר גאלנו even on years where Pesach falls out on Motzei Shabbat. [30]
  2. One may recite the Bracha of אשר גאלנו even if one doesn’t have wine. [31]

Sources

  1. ↑ Sefer HaChinuch 21, Rambam (Sefer Hamitzvot Asin 157), Rambam (Hilkhot Chametz U-Matzah 7:1-2) explains that reading the Haggadah is a positive commandment from the Torah of telling the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim. The central part of the mitzvah, continues Rambam, is for a parent to tell his or her children the story
  2. ↑ Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Perlow (quoted by the Likkutei Shoshanim) based on the Teshuvat HaRosh 24:2, who discusses why there's no bracha on the mitzvah of sippur yetziyat mitzrayim.
  3. ↑ Mishna Brurah (Intro to 473)
  4. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 47)
  5. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 55)
  6. ↑ Rama 473:6, Mishna Brurah 473:62
  7. ↑ Halichot Shlomo (pg 259 note 208), Chazon Ovadyah (pg 55)
  8. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 55)
  9. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:31, Rav Shimon Eider (Halachos of Pesach 24: note 6), Chazon Ovadyah (pg 47-51), Rav Schachter on OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771 between minutes 43:30 and 45:30 and there he says that the same is true of the section Rabban Gamliel Haya Omer. In Maaseh Rav 191, it says that the Vilna Gaon alone would recite the whoe haggada while everyone else listened.
  10. ↑ Mishna Brurah 473:64, Chazon Ovadyah (pg 52)
  11. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 58)
  12. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 53)
  13. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:32
  14. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 56)
  15. ↑ Rav Schachter on OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771 between minutes 46:30 and 50:30
  16. ↑ S”A 473:6
  17. ↑ S”A 473:6, Chazon Ovadyah (vol 2, p. 47)
  18. ↑ S”A 473:6
  19. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 47); Be’ir Hei-tev 473:22
  20. ↑ Mishna Brurah 473:66
  21. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:30
  22. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 55)
  23. ↑ Halichot Shlomo (pg 259 note 208)
  24. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 55)
  25. ↑ S”A 473:7
  26. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:33
  27. ↑ S"A 473:7; the Gemara (Pesachim 115b) explains that the matzah is called lechem oni since it is bread that we speak about, onin alav, during the Seder. Accordingly, Maharil (cited by Bet Yosef 473:7) writes that we leave the matzah exposed for the recital of the Haggadah since it should be present as we speak about Yetziat Mitzrayim.
  28. ↑ Milchamot (Brachot 2b), Darkei Moshe 473:19
  29. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:34
  30. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 9:36
  31. ↑ Chazon Ovadyah (pg 60)
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