Translate "Mah Nishtanah"?

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  • #608793
    playtime
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    Can anyone please translate the “Mah Nishtanah” into the most high-vocab eloquent english??

    #941356
    moi aussi
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    Can’t you check the Artscroll translation instead of expecting someone to type the whole thing here?

    #941357
    147
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    “How Different this nite is from all other nites”!!

    This Mah is not “what” which would portend a 5th question. It is an exclamation of “How” as in “Mah Tov” & “Mah No’iem”.

    #941358
    playtime
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    oh

    #941359
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    147,

    Yes, I’ve heard that, and it seems the pashut pshat to me. It seems, though that the most widely used pshat is, “Why is this night different…”, which is not a fifth question, rather a summary of the four questions.

    #941360
    abra cadabra
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    DY:

    Both pshats you described are the same thing just wording it slightly different. (Which is, essentially, what you said. But it really is just one and the same pshat.)

    #941362
    Rav Tuv
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    This Mah is not “what” which would portend a 5th question. It is an exclamation of “How” as in “Mah Tov” & “Mah No’iem”.

    This is the opinion of the Lail Shimurim haggada by Rav Yechiel Michel Halevi Epstein Author of Aruch Hashulchan.

    It is said in amazement: Oh How this night is different from other nights!

    #941363
    oomis
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    Oh I like that very much! I also used to wonder why the first sentence was not considered the fifth question!

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