{"id":808,"date":"2021-06-03T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=808"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:12:41","slug":"the-fourth-son-pessach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/the-fourth-son-pessach\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FOURTH SON (PESSACH)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In the Haggadah we read Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev talking about the fourth son, the one who &#8220;did not know how to ask&#8221; &#8212; traditionally thought of as the child furthest removed from the events of the night:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The one who knows not how to ask, that is myself, Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, I do not know how to ask you, Lord of the world, and even if I did know, I could not bear to do it. How could I venture to ask you: Why &#8230; we are driven from one exile into another, why our foes are allowed to torment us so much?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;But in the Haggadah the parent of the one who does not know how to ask is told: &#8216;It is for you to disclose the answer to the child.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;And the Haggadah refers to the Torah in which it is written, &#8216;And you should tell your son&#8217; (Exodus 13). &#8216;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Lord of the world, am I not your child?&#8221; (Even if I cannot begin to formulate the questions, you can begin to answer them for me.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Haggadah we read Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev talking about the fourth son, the one who &#8220;did not know how to ask&#8221; &#8212; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}