- The Wicked Son
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- Moshe Ben-Chaim
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- Question: Hello Rabbi, I have a question about the Passover
Haggadah. Specifically, in the story of the 4 sons, the Haggadah
advises us to reply to the "wicked son" or "wicked
child" by "hak-heh et shinav" or "hak-heh
b'shinav". I know that shinav means his teeth. What does this
phrase mean as a coherent whole? There are different translations out
there.
- Thank you very much.
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- Mesora: It means to answer with
"displayed" anger and contempt for his view that there are
many acceptable forms of Judaism. as he says, "what are these
regulations for you"? He is stating in other words, you have one
system and I have another - but both are viable. This position must be
fought tooth and nail, as any acceptance of another form of Judaism
(as he suggests) as Conservatism and Reform and Chassidism, is a
dilution of the pure Judaism which we were commanded not to alter, add
or subtract from.
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