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In this article, the author seeks to demonstrate the ways in which the Pesach Haggadah is structured like a rhetorical text that enables readers and Seder night participants to take a position and construct their identities in a dynamic way and always by means of dialogue.
In light of these considerations, and assisted by the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, an integral part of the present work consists in responding to the question of what it is that makes a wicked son into a wicked son so far removed from the spirit that Pesach, as reflected in the Haggadah, celebrates.