- Q. Kvod Rabenu. My kids asked a new funny question before the four questions asked on the Seder night. It is a Purim question.
They recalled having learned that there is a Minhag to have a recollection of Queen Esther during the Pesach Seder. Presumably due to the original events of Purim happening during Pesach. Is that true, has the Rov seen anyone following this Minhag? If yes, how and if it is practiced.
(It’s mentioned in one of the songs at the end of the Seder so perhaps there? But Why?
A. The Chida says: 'The opening words of Ma Nishtanah are an allusion (remez) to the story of Esther. “On that night, sleep deserted the king…” This took place on the night of Passover – it inaugurated the downfall of Haman.
The first letters of the “Mah nishtanah halailah,” spell the name Haman, a reminder that this is a night of redemption in many generations." Marbeh Lesaper.
Horav Yaakov Emden Zt”l mentions that the Fast of the Firstborn on Erev Pesach commemorates the salvation of the Yehudim in the days of Esther.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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