Machshava:

Pesach 

Mishna:

Pesachim 

Collections: Rabbi Etshalom Hagada

Description

The Berakhah recited at the end of "Magid", Birkat haGeulah, is presented in the Mishnah (Pesahim 10:6), but the end of it is elided in our printed Mishnayot as well as in the Vilna Shas. We examine several manuscripts of Mishnah and Gemara to discover that in some case, the last word of the Berakhah - before the "Hatimah" - is "Geulateinu", whereas in others, that word is followed by the phrase "v'al Pedut Nafsheinu", the version practiced by nearly all of Am Yisrael. We discuss the meaning of these two phrases and how they shed light on the multiple planes of experience and the relationship with God forged through the experience of the Exodus and carried throughout the generations as a result.