Eleven Fifty Nine P.M.

By Chaim Tzvi Tanny

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Contents

Introduction to 11:59 P.M.

The Eradication of Chametz

Seder Korban Pesach

Preparations for the Seder

Can An Angel Be Bad?

Kadesh

Oorchatz

Karpas

Yachatz

Magid

Manishtana

The Fifth Son:

The Ten Plagues

Maka #1: Dom – Blood

Maka #2: Tzfardeia – Frogs

Maka #3: Kinim – Lice

Maka #4: Arov – Mixed wild animals

Maka #5: Dever – Pestilence

Maka #6: Shchin – Boils

Maka #7: Barad – Hail

Maka #8: Arbah – Locusts

Maka #9: Choshech – Darkness

Maka #10: Makas Bechoros – The plague of the Firstborn

Rach-tza

Motzi

Matzo

Marror

Korech

Shulchan Orech

Tzafoon- Afikomen

Berach

Hallel

Nirtza

Appendix

Front Cover Description

The kindness of the host

Is as real as a ghost

At a point in assimilation

The host persecutes our nation

It’s time for the Passover roast

Our people were sunk in the 49 levels of spiritual filth endemic to the Egyptian nation, even to the abyss of their idol worship. One more gate to the 50th:

Had the Almighty not taken us out from Egypt, we may have missed the opportunity.

As one may observe from the slight tilt of the scale to the right on which the tablets containing the Torah which Moshe Rabeinu received on Mount Sinai by the Almighty witnessed in the presence of our people suggests that then as throughout our history, assimilation and intermarriage threatened and threaten our very existence. Any opportunity for a positive act especially one of our 613 mitzvos can tip the scale in a positive direction as occurred by our forefathers.

The Almighty merited our people with a vast Torah and 613 commandments, to bind our thoughts onto them that our preoccupation should be with them, for our betterment right up to the next world (Talmud Bavli, Makkos 23b)

…Therefore we have many precepts in connection with remembering the miracles (of our Exodus) from Egypt, as these are a major foundation of our Torah. Since, the more involved we are with them, the more we will be affected (positively) through them."

Sefer Hachinuch

Mitzva #16

Feldheim 1978

Rabbi Aharon Halevi of Barcelona p.p. 118-121

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Artist:

Rachel Franklin (Montreal, Canada)

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Christine St-Laurent (Laval, Canada)

Rachel Franklin

Editor:

Michal Rodin-Bolonin (Montreal, Canada)

Copyright © 2018 by Chaim Tzvi Tanny

Introduction to 11:59 P.M.

Exalted over the gentile nations G-d’s honor extends over the heavens.

The commentary on Eliyahu Rabbah, Yeshous Yaacov, (Chaim Yehoshua Yaacov, of blessed memory) (chapter 1:a):

Rabbi Eliezer from Garmiza wrote in the Sefer Rokeach, that each author must write his name in his book (at the beginning). For example 57219.png 57221.png Tana D’vei Eliyahu begins with (Breishis Chapter 3:24): 57223.png 57225.png – G-d removed Adam (from the Garden of Eden)" has the same Gematria (numerical value) (519)… The Zohar Hakodosh begins with ״ 57228.png ״ the same letters as ׳׳ 57230.png ׳׳ – its author, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (although recorded in writing by his student Rabbi Abba).

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There is a bar separating Gentiles and G-d, very relevant to the essence of the haggadah, how The Almighty removed our people from the morally corrupt super power nation Egypt, saving us from assimilation and intermarriage. Today, our nation is in a similar situation. We can only hope, pray and effect every positive action to bring our people back to our roots.

There was a woman who was about to celebrate her 100th birthday. Her three sons wanted to buy her the best and most meaningful present. The first bought her a mansion in the Hamptons, but it being so vast, she got lost in it. The second bought her a stretch limousine, but she couldn’t reach the gas pedal.

The third bought her an extraordinary parrot, which could converse in many languages. However, she claimed: how delicious, I had it for supper!This creative Haggadah is dedicated to my father, Mr. Philip (Faivel) Tanny, who was born on the first day of Pesach, in honour of his 100th birthday, which will G-d willing occur this Pesach 5779. We are looking forward to have him join our seders in good health, with many more to follow.

Simon Kuper (Financial Times, January 17/16 commented on the triumph of writing a book: it elevates you above the people…who tell you they want to write one…the satisfaction in expressing yourself more fully than you ever could in your day job.

Thank G-d, for the strength He has granted me, in spite of insomnia and other serious issues, which G-d Willing will pass for the better and Who has helped me complete this Haggadah.

In the Talmud Bavli (Sanhedrin 106a) there were three advisors to Pharaoh who consulted with him how to decrease the rapidly expanding Israelite population. Bilam, who advised him to drown the Jewish males, was killed in the battle against Midian (Bamidbar 31:8) Iyov, for his silence, was punished, with terrible physical suffering, while Yisro, who fled, was rewarded with descendants who sat on the Sanhedrin. The Brisker Rav, Rabbi Velvel Soloveitchik of blessed of memory, (Jewish Press Oct 27/17 p.32) asks why Iyov was punished so harshly. Presumably he remained silent, since he saw that Yisro’s protests made no impression on the evil Pharaoh…(the Rav) answers that Iyov’s silence represented indifference, a lack of empathy for another’s pain. And since he had no pain for another’s suffering, G-d made him experience pain himself. Even if crying out on behalf of the Israelites might not have alleviated their plight, it would have demonstrated compassion and regard for their pain as if it were his own."

Similarly, we find in Pirke Avos (Ethics of the Fathers) Chapter 1:12: Hillel stated: Be a follower (student) of Aharon (the high priest, the elder brother of Moshe): Love peace, and pursue peace… To love peace is not enough: it is passive. Hillel demands an active role in effecting peace between disputing family members or friends. As we say every morning in the birchot hashachar: to make peace between man and his friend and, at least in Nusach Hoari and Sepharad: and between man and his wife. To be passive when one has the potential to save relationships is no better than Iyov’s silence. The Lubavitcher Rebbe, demanded of his followers, to be proactive in helping to return as many of our lost brethren to G-d and the Torah, reflected as the fifth son, who is not even aware of the Pesach Seder. We hope and pray that 11:59 P.M. will inspire our readers to move forward in actually helping others towards their spiritual roots and bring us forward to the Messianic Era when: The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Almighty as the water covers the sea (Isaiah 11:9) *Since all beings will know the Almighty they will neither harm, nor destroy, since one who knows the Almighty, always builds and constructs (Ibn Ezra)" The haggadah follows Nusach Chabad (with some noted exceptions, such as Manishtana, etc.), with Chad Gadya, and an appendix, for those who are still awake to read it.

The Eradication of Chametz

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The Eradication of Chametz

You know your life is on course

When you trace your leaven to its source

From a child or mouse

No chametz in the house

Always focus on your Source.

The Shulchan Aruch HaRav* (Code of Jewish Law) Aruch Chaim (Chapter 438:1) states:

A mouse that entered a house, already checked (assumed clean from any trace of leavened products (chametz), with a piece of bread in its mouth, and one human entered after it and found crumbs, even enough to account for the volume of bread in the mouse’s mouth, one must check (again) the room into which the mouse entered, since the nature of a mouse, is not to scatter crumbs: these crumbs must have originated from another source, not the bread from its mouth. The same applies to a dog and a rooster (ibid:3), Mishna Brurah (6)

The Shulchan Aruch (ibid)

"If a child entered a leaven free house, with bread in his hand, and one found crumbs on the floor, one is not required to check that room again, as we assume the visible crumbs are those that the child dropped, since the nature of a child is to drop food. (Shulchan Aruch HaRav ibid:5)

(The laws of breaking and entering of a mouse (with bread in its mouth) are omitted by the R’ama** since this was not a common occurrence).

*Rabbi Schneur Zalman Schneersohn of saintly memory (born Sept 4, 1745 – 18 Elul, 5505, d. Dec 15, 1812 – 24 Tevet, 5573) lived in Russia. It seems that mice infestation and their search for bread morsels, was more prevalent than in Poland, in the R’ama’s era, as we may observe by the Shulchan Aruch HaRav’s lengthy discussion about several cases of animals entering with leavened products after having cleaned and checked the house.

**The R’ama – Rabbi Moshe Isserles, of saintly memory, lived in Krakow, Poland, born Feb 22, 1520 – Adar I 25, 5290, and passed away May 11, 1572 – Iyar 18, 5332.

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A rooster, a dog and a mouse

Entered our chametz-cleaned house

With their mouths stuffed with bread

We wished they were dead

‘Twas the end of our chametz free house

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The displeasure to be a host

To a mouse with a mouthful of toast

First one white, then one black

Traced the first in his tracks

So the mouse we made into toast.

The Shulchan Aruch continues (Shulchan Aruch HaRav ibid:6)

"If a mouse entered a house already considered free of leavened products, with a piece of bread in its mouth, and a mouse exited with a piece of bread in its mouth, we do not have to check that area again… since we observed a mouse enter with a piece of bread and a mouse exit with a piece of bread, we can assume that the evidence indicates the same mouse that entered was the same who exited.

However (ibid:7) If the first was black and the second was white, one must check that area again, as we do not assume that the second (white) mouse snatched the bread from the first (black) mouse and exited (with it) since mice are not naturally inclined to take from each other.

The Baal Shem Tov advised that whatever we see or occurs in our domain we must learn a lesson in serving the Almighty.

Shortly after the artist having fulfilled the intent of the poet’s ideas and notes, produced an excellent depiction of the two mice described, printed out the art – the poet had brought a bag of some high class, Belgium chocolate covered almonds and cherries to his office, placing the bag on the floor, near his chair. As he was checking out his computer for E-mails, he heard some movement in the bag. He opened it up and to his horror a mouse had infiltrated his highclass snack. He dumped it out and the mouse’s remains were swiftly removed to the garbage dump with the poet’s awesome snack. A few minutes later, another disturbance, this time in the poet’s garbage bin next to his chair: another mouse feasting on some old, decaying vegetation. The poet, feeling in a more merciful mood, dumped the live mouse out the door with its garbage.

We can observe, that even mice have a domain in the Code of Jewish Law.

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Another belligerent mouse

Entered with bread in its mouth

It was as we feared

A weasel appeared

With bread also stuffed in its mouth.

The above case is again described (ibid:8) "If a mouse enters a cleaned, leaven free house, with a piece of bread in its mouth, and there exited a weasel with a piece of bread in its mouth, one must recheck his house for chametz … we do not assume that the weasel snatched the bread from the mouse’s mouth: if this were so, than the mouse also would be in the weasels mouth!

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A weasel had in its mouth

Some bread and a sumptuous mouse

From where the bread came

Our minds we will strain

To again clean our chametz – free house?

(ibid: 9) And if a weasel left a cleaned, chametz free house, with a mouse on one side of its mouth and a piece of bread on the other, we have a doubt if the present piece of bread is another one: if this was the original one that was in the mouse’s mouth when the weasel captured it, then this original bread would still be in the mouse’s mouth, with the mouse in the weasel’s mouth, or perhaps this was the original piece of bread that was in the mouse’s mouth, … however due to the fear cast upon the mouse by the weasel, the bread dropped from the mouse’s mouth and the weasel took it with the mouse…

"Therefore, if one had already nullified his leavened products or still had the time to nullify them, it is not necessary to re-check his house, since for all Rabbinic decrees in doubt, we may be lenient. However, if one had not nullified his leavened products, nor had the time to nullify them, he must re-check his house (room) even if it was a very small piece of bread. We do not suggest that the mouse ate it, since concerning any Torah based doubt, we are stringent. There are not two doubts to be lenient:

The first: perhaps, the bread that the weasel exited with, was the original one which the mouse entered with. Therefore, there would be no (extra) leavened products in the house (room). The second: perhaps the mouse ate the first piece of bread, leaving nothing left over. Therefore, there would be no (extra) leavened products in the house (room). Therefore these two apparent doubts are essentially one: perhaps there is no further leavened products in the house and the one doubt does not contribute to the second, and cannot be considered as a double – doubt (sefek sefeka), we do not consider that the question of the mouse having eaten the ‘doubt’ to produce a ‘double – doubt’ unless the first doubt was perhaps leavened products never entered that room (house) which was checked, and if we assume that a leavened product did enter, perhaps it was completely eaten. These two doubts are essentially two different concepts: the first – the leavened product never entered here, the second – perhaps there is no remnants of it (if it did enter). However, if a leavened product certainly entered a room after having checked (and certified it leaven – free), but the (only) two doubts arise from the removal of the leavened product(s) this is considered as (only) one doubt – what is the relevance, if the leavened product(s) was consumed and nothing remains in this room or that the weasel exited with it, and there remained none of it there…"

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Each creation cannot be a fake

The same must be said for the snake

Some bread in its mouth

Need we check the whole house?

A charmer to vacate the snake?

Shulchan Aruch HaRav (Chapter 438:10)

"A snake that entered a house, cleaned of leavened products, with a piece of bread in its mouth: one is not required to hire a snake charmer to extricate the bread from its mouth, if one already declared his leavened products as nullified, as we would only have to destroy them by Rabbinic ordinance only. The sages did not require one to spend extra

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The night of the 14th of Nissan; the search for chametz:

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The custom is to place pieces of a hard leavened product (such as stale bread or crackers) before the search (for leavened products) in order for the one searching to ‘find’ them. Specifically, ten pieces are placed, according to kabbalah (Esoteric wisdom). Before checking, this blessing is recited: Blessed are you, our Eternal G-d, King of the Universe who has sanctified us (the children of Israel) with His commandments and commanded us to *destroy leavened products."

*Although one is ‘only searching’ for leavened products, this blessing includes its ultimate purpose, to completely nullify and render ownerless any undiscovered leavened products including those of the next morning the 14th of Nissan.

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One should search by the light of a single- wicked candle all places within one’s domain into which leavened products could have entered, even cracks in the floor. One should not speak, between the blessing and the search, even concerning matters relating to it. It is proper not to speak at all, while searching, unless, concerning a matter relevant to the search. One should have his family present at the time of his blessing to hear it, so each person may check his own room, and they should not speak during this time. All should be careful to check the adjacent room when the blessing was heard. One should not go to a non-adjacent room immediately after the blessing. After the search one should be cautious concerning the leavened products put aside for burning or for consumption, to guard that these should not move from their designated places, that these should not crumble, nor be dragged away through children nor mice. One must also nullify the leavened products he may have overlooked after the search as follows, and say:

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All leaven and leavened products in my possession, whether I have observed them or not, whether I have removed them or not is considered as the dust of the earth.

The morning of the 14th of Nissan, the eve of Passover, the complete eradication of Chametz:

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On the day of the 14th (of Nissan) in the *5th daylight hour, one should make a large fire and burn (including the ten pieces) and nullify the leavened products:

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One should burn the ten pieces of leavened products and state while they are burning :

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May it be Your will, the L-rd our G-d, and G-d of our fathers as I have destroyed the leavened products from my house and from my possession, similarly, You should destroy all superficial entities and influences contrary to Your Holiness and the spirit of impurity obliterate from the earth, and the inclination to do evil destroy from our midst. Grant us the fortitude to serve You truthfully. All those matters contrary to G-d’s Holiness, and all evil should vanish as in smoke. The iniquitous dominions and those inhibiting the revelation of the Divine Presence, should be obliterated, with a fiery spirit and judgment as You destroyed Egypt and their deities during those days and will (effect similarly) in our days. Amen, Selah.

*This does not mean 5 p.m., but relative time: in an ideal day, if sunrise was at 6 a.m. and sunset at 6 p.m.- the day’s hours would be 60 minutes each. Therefore going into the ‘5th hour’ would be after 10 a.m. On a day in which there is more sunlight, as in the summer, the hour would be increased accordingly and the fifth hour may start at 10:30 a.m. On a short winter day, the hour would ‘decrease’ and the 5th hour may start at 9:30 a.m. Every city or town has its particular times that are binding.

The candle is burnt with the spoon

For evil we leave no more room

An accomplice to sin

Will surely not win

So the candle is burnt with the spoon

If pride is the company you keep

You had better go back to your sleep

The path to our heaven

Is to first burn the leaven

So take care of the company you keep

The candle, spoon and feather used in the search for chametz, the night before Pesach are burned with the traditional ten pieces of chametz placed around the house. Whatever is ‘looking out’ for evil: chametz becomes negative as well, and is consumed with it. This concept is reflected by our sages: Distance yourself from an evil neighbour lest you will become his equal.

The Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim (Chapter 433) states that one should use a single wick candle to optimize the ability to search small cracks and crevasses for chametz and not to use a candle with two or more wicks, as that would inhibit one from checking spaces such as under the beds which would be subject to igniting: the Mishna Brura (10) states that the use of this Havdalah – like candle (torch) would be