UNDERSTANDING THE FOUR QUESTIONS
We are all familiar with the ‘Four Questions’ that launch the narrative portion of Seder night – “Ma Nishtana Halayla Hazeh?” – “why is this night different from all other nights of the year?”
We then proceed to identify four different aspects of the night that are puzzling and incongruous.
In this fascinating shiur, Rabbi Dunner reexamines the Four Questions from a totally different perspective, and offers new insights into this central text of Seder night.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) There are some forms of ancient pagan worship described by classical rabbinic sources that are so bizarre you could be forgiven for assuming they... Read More