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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re: non-jews at the seder
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 22:29:05 EDT
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References:

To Bob Brown:
	(1) You're welcome.
	(2) Keep a sharp ear tuned for those of your Jewish friends
	who will express to you the hope that you will drop in uninvited.

The Halachic opinion we received leaves some interesting open questions:

(1) For the first Seder (or the first night of any chag), most, if not all,
of the cooking is done before the chag begins.  It seems likely that there
is no question of making a special effort to cook for a nonjew, if people follow
their usual cooking procedures, especially if they have a custom (as we do)
to cook, consistently,  an enormous amount of food for the first night,
such that there are invariably left-overs.

(2) Now that we have a non-jewish guest at the Seder, is the reading of the
haggadah valid if this guest participates?  What degree of participation
might cause raise a doubt as to whether the Jews present had fulfilled the
mitzvoth of the first night of Passover?
					- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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