Highlighted entries are Halachah-related
STRUCTURE OF MAGID
What is the logic behind the structure of Magid?
SLAVERY
What does it mean to be a slave?
Were the Bnei Yisrael slaves to Pharaoh, the king - or to the Egyptian nation as a whole?
How is it possible that Bnei Yisrael were enslaved to such a depraved nation as Egypt?
REDEMPTION
What do "Yad Chazakah" and "Zero'a Netuyah" mean? What is the distinction between the two terms?
Why was it necessary for Hashem Himself to take us out of Egypt (rather than sending an angel or emissary)?
Why isn't it possible that even had Hashem not taken us out just then, we would have left Egypt at some later date?
THE MITZVAH TO RETELL
Why must Chachamim retell the Exodus using the same Hagadah we use to tell the children - the same questions, props, and pedagogical methods?
1. Yosef Da'as to Pesachim 116:p2, ד"ה ככתבם, til p3
Are women obligated in the Mitzvah to tell the story of the Exodus, Hallel, and the other Mitzvos of the Seder?
