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Seder Night: Keeping the Kids Engaged #shorts

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Another idea I just want to say, just in terms of like overall perspective, especially for the Seder night, is you see that Chazal have so much focus throughout the entire Seder on keeping the kids involved, keeping the kids asking questions, feeling good, wanting to be a part of it. It's not a night that is designed for the adults to have fun, to darshan all the Sifrei Torah, the secrets of the Torah. It's that you could save that for the next morning when you wake up for nates because you're into Kabbalistic things and even though you stayed up all night, you also stayed up for tikkun chatzos and but for the Seder night, we're there for the children. We're there to keep them involved and keep them engaged. And we can say kal vachomer ben beno shall kal vachomer, we could say certainly it makes sense that that Chazal would want us to keep our children safe and healthy throughout the Seder night. If that means making a little bit of a faster Seder, which maybe there's even some halachic uh foundation for in terms of when you're eating the afikoman and there's no reason to keep everyone starving until really late at night cuz you're darshaning every single uh line of Maggid. You can save all those divrei Torah for the meal time and for afterwards. But again, the point is that the whole Seder should be something that the kids should be involved in.