Pesach Publications - Part 8: The Rebbe's Haggada (2)

00:01 This is behem shech in continuation to the earlier installment regarding the Haggadah with the Rebbe's commentaries, which was published firstly in the year Taf Shin Vav, nineteen forty-six, and its various editions. We now continue with installment number eight, discussing additional reviews on the Rebbe's Haggadah. First, the brief list of the various editions which appeared of the Rebbe's Haggadah. In the year Taf Shin Vav, as mentioned, nineteen forty-six, was the first edition of the Rebbe's Haggadah. In the year Taf Shin Chav Gimel, nineteen sixty-three, noting the hundred and fifty years since the passing of the Alter Rebbe, the Haggadah was republished with additional pirushim, mekiras, v'cholom. In the year Taf Shin Lamed Gimel, nineteen seventy-three, the Haggadah was published with additional hasofis supplements. They consisted of three different inyanim. A compilation of the Rebbe's explanations which were delivered at the farbrengens of Pesach, and they have a sheyches, they relate to the inyanim of the Haggadah. Two, customs of Chag HaPesach which are in the Sefer HaMenhogim, Sefer HaMenhogim Chabad, the customs of Chabad. And three, michtavim kloliim, messages that the Rebbe would send on an annual basis in honor of Pesach. And four, a hadron, a siom, a conclusion that the Rebbe made on the tractate of Mesech de Pesach. And from then and on, this Haggadah was published in many editions. To date, the Haggadah consists of two volumes. We continue now with reviews, additional reviews on the Rebbe's Haggadah. The Chabad Haggadah is unique in its kind. This is the Haggadah shel Pesach

02:43 with the title Lekutei Menhogim VeTaimim, Compilation of Customs and Reasons. This Haggadah comes and is expressed in the Nusach and the customs, but not in commentaries or sermons or insights. This is not what the Haggadah was intended for, and this is not the intention of the author. But from an aspect of Menhogim VeTaimim, customs and reasons, and on that we can also add halachas and sources, and primarily the sources. This is then a wonderful Haggadah. There are very few like this Haggadah, and it is appropriate for every Yid, for a Hasid as well as for a non-Hasid. It is a pearl in the Haggadah literature. In a short, brief manner, for every paragraph, sentence, or expression in the Haggadah, we are given the sources from Rishonim and Achronim with the summary of the laws and customs which relate to the specific section of the Haggadah, combined with appropriate commentaries compiled from a selection of Rishonim and Achronim. And as the quote that a study hall, a Beit HaMedrash, ein Beit HaMedrash be'le chidush, is never without a chidush, a new innovation, the author contributes new pirushim and reasons on his own, of them in halacha, in Kabbalah, and in peshat, the literal meaning of the Haggadah. In regards to customs, there is a great deal and stress in the Menhogim of Beit HaRav, in the customs which the Rabbeim themselves practiced, and they are mentioned in this Haggadah. Of them, there are customs which all Chassidim Chabad practice, they conduct themselves and follow these Menhogim,

05:12 and there are Menhogim selected exclusively and practiced by the Beit HaRav, by the Rabbeim themselves. Indeed, everyone who takes the Haggadah to his hands and looks into it, and surely when he learns it with greater depth, he immediately sees for himself a unique production in its kind. Looking from the perspective of the wide scope, what is included in this Haggadah, and also in the concentration on different matters in the Haggadah, in the organizational manner, in the accuracy, and also in the innovation. And all this, when combined together, it is an exceptional masterpiece. What was the reason that the Rabbe saw a need to make this Haggadah? It is figured by Chassidim that this could be based on the words of the previous Rabbe in a talk which he delivered on Pesach Tov Shin Dalet Tov Dalet Shin, 1944. The Friedrich Rabbe said as following, My father, the Rabbe Rashab, said that in these evenings of Chag HaPesach, before a person does something about the matters of the Seder, darf man a kuk ton a Seder. One needs to first check in the Seder to know exactly what to do. So we conclude this article that the Rabbe checked for us in the Seder. And he was mezakeh, he merited the whole Am Yisrael with a complete picture of details and details of details of the words of our sages and the literature of the Rishonim and Achronim, combined with the Sifrei HaKabbalah and Chassidis, and primarily the specific directives as one should conduct himself in

07:40 a manner that it is clear, organized, and a prepared table for everyone who sits down at a Seder this sacred evening. We will im yirtzeh Hashem continue in the next installment.