STRUCTURE OF MAGID

1) The Order in the Seder -

What is the logic behind the structure of Magid?

SLAVERY

2) עבדים היינו -

What does it mean to be a slave?

3) עבדים היינו לפרעה -

Were the Bnei Yisrael slaves to Pharaoh, the king - or to the Egyptian nation as a whole?

4) במצרים -

Why were we enslaved to the Egyptians, specifically?

5) במצרים -

How is it possible that Bnei Yisrael were enslaved to such a depraved nation as Egypt?

REDEMPTION

6) ביד חזקה ובזרוע נטויה -

What do "Yad Chazakah" and "Zero'a Netuyah" mean? What is the distinction between the two terms?

7) ואלו לא הוציא הקדוש ברוך הוא את אבותינו ממצרים -

Why was it necessary for Hashem Himself to take us out of Egypt (rather than sending an angel or emissary)?

8) הרי אנו ובנינו ובני בנינו משעבדים היינו לפרעה במצרים -

Why isn't it possible that even had Hashem not taken us out just then, we would have left Egypt at some later date?

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