Description

Enhance your seder with this 12-page downloadable PDF booklet containing 23 rhymes corresponding to different sections of the Hagadah, written by Rabbi Dovid Kaplan.

From the booklet:

INTRODUCTION:

One of the most important goals of the seder night-if not the most important – is to keep the attention of the children while instilling Torah fundamentals. Parents must resort to any and all pedagogical techniques at their disposal. One of the techniques I’ve found effective is to tell over various parts of the seder in rhyme. Children enjoy guessing the rhyme words…and adults enjoy it even more. The rhymes are not an end in and of themselves and should not be seen as such. They are a way of maintaining attentiveness and interest, and of making the evening enjoyable and exciting. They should serve as an entry point for parents to then explain the concepts being dealt with. Please notice that many medrashim and statements of Chazal have been incorporated into the rhymes.

The rhythm in the poems is not always perfect, so you may have to play around a little by stretching some words and changing speeds. I have inserted dashes in order to help with the rhythm. Some of the words are written intentionally slangy or misspelled, for the sake of the cause. Transliterated words are in italics. And please remember to pause before saying the rhyme word in each sentence, so that everyone present has a chance to guess them. I hope you find them useful and enjoyable.

Dovid B. Kaplan
dovidbkaplan@gmail.com