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Can anyone please translate the “Mah Nishtanah” into the most high-vocab eloquent english??
Can’t you check the Artscroll translation instead of expecting someone to type the whole thing here?
“How Different this nite is from all other nites”!!
This Mah is not “what” which would portend a 5th question. It is an exclamation of “How” as in “Mah Tov” & “Mah No’iem”.
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Yes, I’ve heard that, and it seems the pashut pshat to me. It seems, though that the most widely used pshat is, “Why is this night different…”, which is not a fifth question, rather a summary of the four questions.
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Both pshats you described are the same thing just wording it slightly different. (Which is, essentially, what you said. But it really is just one and the same pshat.)
This Mah is not “what” which would portend a 5th question. It is an exclamation of “How” as in “Mah Tov” & “Mah No’iem”.
This is the opinion of the Lail Shimurim haggada by Rav Yechiel Michel Halevi Epstein Author of Aruch Hashulchan.
It is said in amazement: Oh How this night is different from other nights!
Oh I like that very much! I also used to wonder why the first sentence was not considered the fifth question!
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