Israel. A part of every Jew. Just the name brings up a flurry of emotion and in the current situation, even more so now with our brothers and sisters at
dvar Torah, apropos Passover, in which he discusses the difference between לספר
“le-sapper” and להגיד
“le-hagid”, both of which mean “to tell”. These are two seemingly identical instructions for the Passover seder service.
In the Torah (שמות יג:ח) we are instructed
וְהִגַּדְתָּ לְבִנְךָ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא לֵאמֹר בַּעֲבוּר זֶה עָשָׂה יְהוָה לִי בְּצֵאתִי מִמִּצְרָיִם which pointedly uses the word וְהִגַּדְתָּ . However, in the Hagadah itself the word לספר appears twice: the opening statement of עבדים היינו concludes with “כל המרבה
לספר ביצ”מ הרי זה משובח”. This is followed by the story of the five sages celebrating in Bnei Brak והיו
מספרים ביציאת מצרים כל אותו הלילה, again using the term לספר rather than להגיד.
In his eloquent discourse, Rabbi Gross re