Fulfilling B’Chol Dor VaDor: 3 Ways to Experience the Seder

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28 Mar 2019
Passover
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We are supposed to feel as if we actually left Egypt. How is it possible to achieve this? Three approaches.

The idea of Yetziat Mitzrayim has to be so real to us to the point that we can say “I actually witnessed it”, we know it’s true as if we were there because we have an unbroken chain to something that happened to an entire nation. Something that happened in front of an entire nation is very hard to falsify.

Michtav Me’Eliyahu: By fulfilling the mitzvot of Pesach, Matzah, and Marror correctly we create a connection to the memory of Yetziat Mitzrayim which is embedded in the 15th of Nissan. This can happen even on a subconscious level.


Delivered at the OU Israel Center, March 25, 2019 (18 Adar II 5779)