Machshava:

Pesach 

Parsha:

Bo 

Description

Parashat Bo presents three scenes in which fathers and sons interact and the father is commanded to teach his son about the Exodus. The famous Midrash of the "Four Sons" renders each interaction as an independent, self-contained conversation between a father and a specific, unique son. Some have modified this read and suggested that the sons in question might be one and the same child, seen at different stages of cognitive, emotional and moral development. In this shiur, a new proposal is suggested - that the three interactions are a sequence of "teaching moments" between the same father and the same son at pretty much the same stage of his life.