V'dibarta Bam

@DhoweedYaAgov The Rambam doesn't include anything extra to say. How do you plan to fulfill the injunction: מצוה עלינו לספר ביציאת מצריים; וכל המאריך ביציאת מצריים, הרי זה משובח?

@DoubleAA What would the Haggadah consist of?

@Fred I don't know. I'm just making this up now! Perhaps divrei torah written by various Yodeyans; copies of relevant q/a from the site, if they are seder appropriate;

And a full expanded Mi Yodeya song! :)

I'm open to other suggestions.

HodofHod

12:32 AM

@DoubleAA Sounds interesting. We're not stuck with their font, are we?

@Fred Good thing Nirtza comes after Tzafun!

@DoubleAA Whoops. Yes.

@HodofHod No idea. We can probably rip the text from elsewhere if need be.

@Fred The real question is, will they finish by the time they have to say Keriat Shema in the morning :)

@DoubleAA Not if they have to read the entire text of every answer. Unless you're the Micro Machines man.

@DoubleAA Cool idea! I bet the whole thing could be adapted from existing MY content

A lot of work to get a good job done by this Pesach. Maybe aim for v0.1 for this Pesach, then refine over the coming year?

12:39 AM

@IsaacMoses I'm imagining a meta post asking people to post a bunch of questions that they can imagine asking or being asked at the seder. We could tag them mi-yodeya-haggadah or so, and include a bunch of them in the haggadah.

@DoubleAA Any ideas for a title?

@Fred Seder: Mi Yodeya?

I'm not committed to that though.

@DoubleAA Sounds good, already on topic. :)

Seth J

I'm laughing over here. Sounds fantastic, though I'm no more optimistic than @Isaac Moses about getting it done in time. Some of us have to work!

@DoubleAA There are already 60 questions at judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…

@SethJ Not to mention that pre-Pesach is probably busier than usual for most people.

12:50 AM

@Fred 9 don't have answers or are closed.

DhoweedYaAgov

1:11 AM

@DoubleAA what do you mean by your statemnet bour rambams haggada?

it has the brochoth and everything like that, everything else is customs

@Fred Don't forget passover, kiddush, hallel, betnching, etc.

... shemot, vaeira, bo, beshalach, exodus

1:30 AM

@IsaacMoses Good point.

1:51 AM

I strongly suspect that we could curate and adapt a whole hagada's worth of stuff from existing Q&A.

Q: why do we say Pesach seder brachot both nights?

2:07 AM

@DoubleAA For curation and adaptation, how about a series of Meta Qs, one for each section of the Hagada (with multiple for Magid), with the answers being edited content that could go into the commentary for that section?

Seth J

@MonicaCellio was this really your first question on MY?

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During the Pesach seder, but not during the rest of Pesach, we say b'rachot for the mitzvot of matzah and maror. (I mean the "asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav" b'rachot.) So it seems that we are only commanded in this for the night of the seder. But in the diaspora we have two seder nights and we sa...

passover passover-seder-hagada food

2:24 AM

@DoubleAA It looks like it might not be much more than a bunch of text and clipart

Seth J

2:40 AM

@MonicaCellio, @doubleaa, @msh210 does this merit historical lock, or can this be edited (or is it ok)?

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Q: Karpas - What do you use?

I have heard of potatoes, celery, scallion. What else do people use for Karpas? Is there one item that is more L'Chatchila than the others?

And this (sorry, @IsaacMoses)

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Q: How do you pick a Hagada to use at the Seder?

There are hundreds or thousands of editions of the Hagada available. How do you choose which one is best to use at the Seder?

passover passover-seder-hagada

@SethJ Borderline. The title is definitely poor, but the question could be OK, especially if it asked for sources. (Though the listiness isn't great.)

@SethJ Not a list question. Perhaps a tad subjective, but if it had "and why" at the end, I think it'd be fine as Good Subjective.

Monica Cellio

3:08 AM

@DoubleAA oh cool! And I personally have a use for that (i.e. it's not just a curiosity); this year I am ditching the annoying family sedarim, going to my rabbi for the first night, and (if all goes well) holding my own for the second night for a group of adults who want to really engage with the haggadah and don't care how long we spend on it.

(That's the plan; still trying to confirm critical mass.) So if I do that, I'll need haggadot...

@DoubleAA yes, using questions/answers from our site would be better IMO than soliciting people for divrei torah to include. Let's promote the content we have here.

@DoubleAA Wow, it looks like there are a bunch of offerings in the make-your-own-Hagada space

Monica Cellio

@SethJ yes, aside from one I asked and deleted 15 minutes later because I thought it had an obvious answer and I didn't want to look stupid in front of all the smart people here on my first time out. (I was wrong to delete it, as it turned out -- newbie jitters.)

@SethJ this seems like it should get a historical lock.

@SethJ this doesn't. It's asking "how to pick", not "what do you use". Maybe it could be massaged a bit.

@IsaacMoses ... some of which, of course, don't actually exist. But the text, at least, is out there. I'd say that content is something we could handle very well here. Design, typesetting, book layout - we're not as geared up to do. but maybe if we assemble the content, we can get someone (a real publisher?) to help with that, especially if we allow a year to do that. @DoubleAA, How about a bare-content "Seder Supplement - Beta" this year and a goal for a published book by Hagada season next year?

... a Seder Supplement could be "published" as a fairly clean .pdf for people to print out and used at seders, put out in stacks at shul, etc.

3:31 AM

@IsaacMoses I don't see a need to set out our whole business plan right now.

Anyway, people seem interested so I've pung some SE people to see what they have to offer. Hopefully I'll have a meta post up in the next day or two.

In the meantime:

ask more Seder-esque questions!

Monica Cellio

@DoubleAA ?