Reply To: Pesach questions

Also, what about chacham and tam? they are both clearly together against the other two. but we always seem to value Chacham and treat Tam is secondary.

Note that chacham gets instructions on how to behave, but not on the meaning of Pesach. Tam gets the best answer about the meaning of Pesach and it includes him “us” .. Nobody up to Betzalel is called Chacham in Humash, right? Yaakov Avinu is Tam.

Maybe Tam is not so “simple”?
He is not distracted by myriad of details like chacham, but asks directly “Ma Zot”, pointing directly at the most important part – Korban? Or generally about the unusual situation? It is not why we recline, or dip twice, he sees already that there is one reason behind all details (like Yosef – two dreams are one, a way of thinking he got from Yaakov). Maybe he graduated from Halakha of Chacham to the higher class of Agadda? And this is after all the goal as the book is called “Hagada”?