In the Pesach Haggadah it writes:
“In Every generation each person must view
himself as if he was redeemed from Egypt.”
The message being we must live in the moment the
message of yesteryear in order to impact our future!
Pesach is a time for asking
questions and giving answers. Please share this Torah Riddle at your Yom Tov
table and see if your family and guests can figure out the answer. Flex those
brain muscles!
Question: Why do some women have a custom to
say shehecheyanu twice on the Seder night, once by candle lighting and once
while kiddush is made?
Background: There is an obligation to say shehecheyanu for the Yom
Tov upon lighting candles or saying kiddush, as well as for the mitzvos of
eating matzah, and marror.
Answer: Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach says that a woman who has the custom
not to say amen after kiddush by other Yom Tovim nevertheless on the night of
the Seder needs to answer amen for she said shehecheyanu on candle lighting
while it was still day but the shehecheyanu you say at kiddush also counts for
the other mitzvos of matzo and maror done at night. Rav Shmuel Wasner zt”l
adds that this also answers why the women who have a custom to say shehecheyanu
a second time by kiddush for when they lit they didn’t have in mind at all to
fulfill the mitzvos of the night. (See Dirshu Mishna Berura 473:1:1, footnote
4)
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Chag kasher visameach,
Rabbi Dovid Shmuel Milder