By: Herschel Karp (10th Grade) and Robert Zohar (10th)
The Four Sons Haiku
The wise son wants to
Know, What are the commandments
Which are told to you
When you have finished,
The Afikomen you can't
Continue to eat
Basing off logic
Seems to make no sense, Chukim and
All the strange laws, why?
The afikomen,
Represents accepting god
On his terms, not ours
The Wicked son,
Asks what is this work for you
Excluding himself
To his teeth we blunt
And say that because of this
Hashem took us out.
His low self esteem
Why would Hashem care about him?
Not worthy enough
We soften his speech
And say that through people's flaws
We can be redeemed.
A simple question
What is this? he wants to know
Nothing specific.
From out of Egypt
We came from the house of slaves
With Hashem's strong hand
Tam means he is full
He doesn’t think he needs Hashem
He’s fine by himself
Hashem we still need
With a strong hand he did help
We are not enough
He does not question
He does not know how to ask
just sitting quietly.
We must provoke him
We were taken out today
From our slavery
He is not intrigued
It does not interest him
He lacks excitement
The parent should teach
So that he is inspired
Problem with themselves
Although there are four
They are inside all of us
Echad for them all
And to our children
Teach to them the exodus
Leaving mitzrayim
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