Everyone has been to a rebbe's house for Shabbos, almost no one has been for Pesach.
I have long wondered: what do the greatest sedarim look like? I've heard the divrei Torah, the "quick vorts," and own a couple dozen haggadahs. But I've never seen it in action. After all, the only seder I'd ever been to was my own.
So I set out to ask the Masters: tachlis, how do you make the most of your Maggid?
I hope you enjoy our offering for Pesach 5781. This year, may we feel - literally, figuratively, and in every way possible - as though we've gone from darkness to light. 
Rabbi David Pardo
Director, OU Torah Initiatives  Rabbi Shalom Rosner is a Ra"m at Yeshivat Kerem b'Yavneh, the Rav of Nofei HaShemesh, and has been giving one of the most popular English language Daf Yomi shiurim in the world (among many other types) through OU Torah and All Daf. He works every year to invent and reinvent his seder table, to make it an experience that comes alive for everyone at the table.  Rabbi Benzion Klatzko is one of the best known mekarvim in the world, opening his home for decades to thousands of students. He is also the owner and operator of Shabbat.com, the largest Jewish social platform.
His Shabbos table rarely has less than 50 people at it, and his kids described their family seder as "an interactive Broadway" where "all of history came to life." 
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is the Rav of Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, in New Jersey, and the David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future and University Life at Yeshiva University. Previously he was the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY and the NCSY International Director of Education.
He is emphatic that the Haggadah is not a script and is designed to be as dynamic today as it was 1000 years ago. 
Rabbi Moshe Hauer is the Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union. Previously he was the Rav of Beth Jacob Shaarei Zoom for over 26 years. He came into the OU in the storm of a global pandemic, and despite this (or perhaps, because of this?) has proven himself a thoughtful and capable leader on the national stage.
As a shul rabbi, he had to stop visiting his parents for Pesach early on. "Every year I told my father I'm not at his table, but there's an embassy of his table." What did he mean? And what did that have anything to do with his third cousin? |
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