By Gloria Margulies:
 

The Hidden Message of the Four Children: the traditional reading depicts four distinct categories: wise, wicked (rebellious), simple, and one who does not even know how to ask. However, each of us is more than one thing. There is not one way or the other, but many ways at the same time. A quote from Rabbi Avi Weiss (National President of AMCHA - the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, a grassroots organization that speaks out for Jewish causes throughout the world): "Another approach to the four children: Perhaps they are not four separate individuals? After all, no one is completely wise, totally rebellious, perfectly simple, nor absolutely unable to ask. Rather, the four children are really one individual in whom there are each of these elements: wisdom, rebelliousness, simplicity and silence."  


haggadah Section: -- Four Children