It happened once on Pesach that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining at a Seder in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the exodus from Egypt that whole night, until their students came and said to them, "Masters, it's time to recite the morning Shema!"

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "I am like a man of seventy years and I did not succeed at proving that the exodus from Egypt should be said at night, until Ben Zoma explained it: (Deuteronomy 16:3), 'That you remember the day you left the land of Egypt all the days of your life;' 'the days of your life' refers to the days, 'all the days of your life' refers also to the nights." But the Sages say, "'the days of your life' refers to the days of this world, and 'all the days of your life' includes the days of the Messiah."

What is the point of this often overlooked story? 


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions