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Six Questions for the Seder Night, as recalled by Paul Christian Kirchner in his Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Nuremberg, 1717)

Born into Judaism, Paul Christian Kirchner was baptized a Christian in 1713. In 1717, he first published the word “Jüdisches Ceremoniel” or “Jewish Ceremony,” for which he is most well known — a firsthand recollection (and, to be honest, criticism) of Jewish practices throughout the year and life cycle. While the work is written by an apostate for a Christian audience, and thus it is certainly not an unbiased source — and it had been almost a decade since he left the community so some of his memories are a bit muddled — it is still a fascinating work if only for its depiction of Jewish practices otherwise forgotten. In this portion of Kirchner’s description of the Seder night, he describes a ritual somewhat similar to the one still practiced in many North African communities to this day along with six — count ’em, six! — questions asked by the eldest (‽) child to the father.

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Yaḥats, Magid

Tags:

18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Christian Hebraism, Four Questions, German vernacular prayer, haggadah supplements, liberation, paraliturgical

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Paul Christian Kirchner (translation)

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