Mah Nishtanah: The Mishnah’s Fifth Question!
The Passover Seder is the most meaningful of all Jewish rituals, and the Mishnah — arguably the most significant rabbinic text — lays out the entire Seder in tractate Pesachim. Yet the anonymous author of the Passover Haggadah has deviated from the Mishnah both in form and content. What is the religious/educational thinking that drives the classical Haggadah to alter the Mishnah? We ask, Mah Nishtanah?
This Rapoport Memorial Lecture, taught by Dr. Chanan Gafni, is sponsored by Dr. Samuel and Sanda E. Rapoport.
It was originally recorded on 03/27/2022.