ערבי פסחים
Erev pesachim
Erev pesachim
What book and seder of the Mishna is ערבי פסחים in?
How many cups of wine do poor people need to drink?
What are the modern day 4 questions: English or Hebrew?
We must eat matzah, we need to eat maror, we need to recline, and we need dip twice
What is different about this Pesach from most years?
It occurs on Saturday night.
Are women obligated to lean for the different cups of wine?
Bonus points for the reasoning
They are because they were a part of the miracle of Pesach, including Bat Paroah and Miriam
Do women need to recline while drinking wine?
It depends, if she is next to her husband, she does not and if she is an אישה חשובה she must recline. An important woman can be classified as many different things, but can mean that if in the ancient world, she was considered an equal to her husband, she must lean.
Which question that we do today was not in the Mishna?
Bonus points for why
What is one reason that having the seder on Saturday night would be an issue?
Which number Mishna is ערבי פסחים in the Mishna?
1
Which of the four cups do we lean for?
Bonus points for providing a reason
Reason 1: You lean for the first two because you are talking about the Pesach story and for the second two you are eating and saying Hallel.
Reason 2: You lean for the second 2 because at the beginning, you are talking about how we were slaves, and at the end we are free.
Modern practice: we lean for all four because both reasons are convincing
Which question in the Mishna is not in the modern seder?
Bonus points for why
In the Mishna, there was a question about what type of meat you could eat and it said on all other nights, you could eat meat that was roasted, stewed or baked but on the seder you can only eat roasted to remember the temple.
Today, you are not allowed to eat roasted meat because we have more separation from the temple that we can remember it but be apart from it.
What is the order of things we must do to accommodate having Pesach on Saturday night?
Wine, Kiddush, Candles, Havdalah, Shehecheyanu
יקנה׳׳ז
During the seder, you eat Matzah and maror, do you lean for one both or neither. If only one, which?
You lean for Matzah, and not for maror because matzah reminds us of freedom, and maror reminds us of slavery
How is the phrase מתחיל בגנות ומסים בשבח applied in the seder?
The English is starting at needing redemption and ending in praise.
We begin talking about how we were slaves and end talking about how we are free
Why do the questions get asked during the seder?
They get asked so that if a child does not know enough about the seder to ask questions, they have a template where they can
In some Hagadot, a rabbit is present and there is a theme in some art with a hunter chasing a rabbit. How does that relate to Pesach?
The Jewish people have been "hunted" for many years and have always needed to run away or be fearful, including when we were slaves in Egypt
What is one difference between the Mishna form and the Gemara form of the Mishna ’ערבי פסחים סמוך למנחה’?
In the Mishna, it says ערבי פסחים, and in the Gemara, it says ערב פסחים. The Mishna refers to this night from now on, every year, while the Gemara says ערב פסחים, which refers to only one night during the year.
Yes, he needs to eat at least an olive-sized amount of Matzah and must recline while eating it, and then can continue to work.
If a child is unable to ask the four questions, who asks instead?
The wife, and if she cannot, the father asks himself the questions
In the seder, we talk a lot about the how we started as slaves. Does that refer to us being slaves in Egypt or something else and why?
Yes it does because we talk about עבדים היינו many times in the seder
No it does not, we started as slaves when we were idol worshippers and have been building towards redemption ever since our beginning as a people