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We ask the following database query:
How does the Bible describe children asking about the Exodus.
The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine.
This database query yields the list below.
The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
There are 4 places in the Torah where children are spoken to
about the Exodus.
- Cynical inquiry: When your son says what is this service
- Simple inquiry: When your son asks what is this
- Wise inquiry: When your son asks what are the testimonials, statutes and laws..
- Apathetic: .......Tell him [no inquiry]
As can be seen the cynical son says vs asks his question. The simple son
uses the simple description this while the wise son gives details,
testimonials, statutes, and laws.In summary the 4 inquiry types can be
inferred from the two parameters of a) inquiry word (ask, say) and
b) the detail level of question.
The list below presents the results of the database query.
Verse
| Inquiry type
| Approximate text of verse
| Inquiry word
| Detail descriptor
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Ex12-25:28
| Cynical
| When your children say to you ...what is this service
| Say
| Service
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Ex13-14:16
| Simple
| When your child asks you...what is this
| Asks
| This
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Dt06-20:25
| Wise
| When your child asks you ...what are these testimonials, statutes, and laws
| Asks
| Testimonials, statutes, and laws
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Ex13-01:10
| Apathetic
| ......tell him as follows
| [no inquiry]
| [no inquiry]
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Advanced Rashi:
Traditionally the cynical son has been called wicked. Similarly
the apathetic son has been called the son who doesn't know how to ask.
The translation apathetic comes from Rabbi Dr. Soloveitchick.
For more details on further differences in these chapters please see
the following resources:
Passover sheet at
http://www.Rashiyomi.com/pa.htm
and
The Educational Pedagogy of the Four Sons (Shofar, 22#4) at
http://www.Rashiyomi.com/thefoursons.pdf.
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