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# The minhag is for the Rabbi of the community to give a Drasha on Shabbat HaGadol on Hilchot Pesach. < | ==Why is it called Shabbat HaGadol?== | ||
# If the Rabbi who usually gives the Drasha on Shabbat HaGadol is in mourning and there’s no other Rabbi to make a Drasha it’s permissible to give the Drasha. < | |||
# On Shabbat HaGadol, the minhag is to read the | #Some explain that it's called [[Shabbat]] HaGadol because that was the [[Shabbat]] when a miracle occurred for the Jews in Egypt that the Egyptians didn't say anything when the Jews took sheep, which was the Egyptian god, in order to slaughter them for [[Pesach]].<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 430:1, Mishna Brurah 430:1 </ref> | ||
#As Am Yisrael left Mitzrayim on the 15th of Nissan (Thursday),<ref name=":0">Shabbat 87b</ref> the previous Shabbat would have been the 10th of Nissan, the same day Moshe asks K'lal Yisrael that "''they shall take every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house''." <ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#4 Aish.com] citing Shemot 12:3</ref> Tosfot <ref name=":0" /> explains that this action interested and angered the Egyptians, and so the firstborn pleaded to Pharaoh to free Am Yisrael, but he refused. And so, as a result, the firstborn attacked their fathers. The greatness is derived from the damage Hashem did to Egyptian society in this sense.<ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#5 Aish.com] citing Midrash Tehilim 136:6 and Ancient Tanchuma Bo 18</ref> | |||
== | #See Sfat Emet Shabbat HaGadol for more. | ||
<references/> | # It wasn't established on the date of the 10th because it was the date of Miriam's death and we don't want to establish a holiday for that day.<ref>Magen Avraham 430:1</ref> | ||
==Haftarah== | |||
#There are a number of Minhagim about which Haftara to read when Erev Pesach is on Shabbat HaGadol, and each community should follow its own custom.<ref>Yechave Daat 1:3</ref> | |||
==Drasha of the Rabbi== | |||
#The minhag is for the Rabbi of the community to give a Drasha on [[Shabbat]] HaGadol on Hilchot [[Pesach]]. <ref>Mishna Brurah 429:2, Chazon Ovadia page 32 </ref> However, if [[Shabbat]] HaGadol falls out on [[Erev Pesach]], the Drasha should take place a week earlier. <ref>Mishna Brurah 430:1, Chazon Ovadia page 32 </ref> | |||
#If the Rabbi who usually gives the Drasha on [[Shabbat]] HaGadol is in [[mourning]] and there’s no other Rabbi to make a Drasha, it’s permissible to give the Drasha. <ref>Halichot Shlomo (vol 1, 2:7) </ref> | |||
==Greetings on Shabbat Hagadol== | |||
#The minhag is to greet one another saying "[[Shabbat]] Hagadol Mevorach" on Shabat Hagadol. <ref>Chazon Ovadia page 29 </ref> | |||
==Reading the Haggadah in advance== | |||
#On [[Shabbat]] HaGadol, the minhag is to read the Haggadah from Avadim Hayinu until LeChaper Al Avonotanu. <ref>Rama 430:1 based on Ravyah 225 writes that the minhag is to read the Haggadah from Avadim Hayinu until LeChaper Al Avonotanu on [[Shabbat]] HaGadol. This is quoted by Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 107:3. However, Beiur Halacha s.v. BeMincha quotes the Gra (Maaseh Rav #173) who didn't have the minhag to read the Hagadah on [[Shabbat]]. </ref> | |||
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