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The Four Answers

Leader: So why is this night different from all other nights? Well, because on this night
we celebrate one of the most important times in the history of Jewish people, when we
went forth from slavery to freedom because of the mercy, love, and the great power of the
LORD our God. But before we retell that story, let’s answer the four questions:
When we stand
before the
1. Why do we eat the matzah? For two reasons: first, to remember the bread Almighty Judge,
of affliction we had to eat when we were slaves, and second, to remember He will ask us
how our ancestors fled Egypt in such a hurry that they did not have time for four questions:

their bread dough to rise.... 1. Were you
honest in
business and
2. Why do we eat the bitter herbs? We eat them to remind ourselves of how
labor?
our ancestors’ lives were bitter as slaves in Egypt.
2. Did you fix
time to study the
3. Why do we dip our herbs twice? We dip karpas in salt water to remember
Torah, my words
the salty tears of the slaves, and also to remember how we crossed the salty of instruction?
waters of the sea. We also dip the maror in the charoset to remember how
3. Did you build
the bitterness of our slavery was made sweet by the hope for our freedom. up family life?

4. Why do we recline at the table? We recline tonight as a symbol of our 4. Have you
trusted in
freedom, for when we were slaves we could never recline in comfort. salvation through
the Messiah?

Avadim Hayinu – We Were Slaves

Let’s begin the great story of our redemption from Egypt by
reciting the following traditional summary statement:

The name “Pharaoh”
may be understood The Avadim Hayinu
as an abbreviation declaration is the
for “po’el ra,” an first answer to the
evildoer, and the Na nishtanah...
word mitzrayim
(Egypt) comes from How did God bring
the verb “tzur” (rWc) us out from Egypt
meaning to bind, but by miracles and
confine, restrict... the ten makkot
Avadim ha’yinu le’Pharaoh be’mitzraim. (punishments)?
Vai-yotzieinu Adonai Eloheinu misham The purpose of our

be’yad chazakah u’vizero’ah netuyah. redemption is to
Slavery is always elevate us as free
an offense to the people who are
Lord our God, who We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. able to choose to
made all people in
his image and But the LORD our God brought us out from there
likeness.. by a mighty and outstretched arm.

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