NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH Returning To Roots By: Mrs. Shira Smiles

he Mishnah notes that we begin recounting the events of the evening with words describing our disgrace, and we culminate with words of praise. Rav and Shemuel dispute whether these refer to our physical disgrace, and hence begin with “we were slaves to Pharoh in Egypt, or our spiritual disgrace, with “our forefathers were idolaters,”. We follow both opinions, and include both in our recounting. The commentators are troubled why we focus on our negative beginnings on this night of celebration of our redemption. The words of praise are formulated as “and now Hashem has brought us close to His service.” When is the “now”? Click here Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.