Kvdharaba name, friends, it's wonderful to be with you.

Pesach is getting close and I know how hard it is to take off time, to learn a little.

Pesak really is hard work.

In fact, once many years ago, when I was a congregational rabbi, I reminded people of the t-shirt that was worn in the 1960s by the first generation of women who went en masse to college.

And they got married and then had children and that had great burdens and somebody made a

great deal of money selling a t-shirt that read for this we went to college I said

somebody should make one specially for Pesa cleaning that says for this, we left Egypt.

As divine providence would have it, that week was the only week in my entire rabbinical career

in which an apron maker was sitting in the shoe. So we actually owned that apron.

But friends, may I just begin by reminding us that this coming Shabbat is called Shabbat Agado

and the Rishonim and the Akharonim are unsure as to why this particular name.

And they have many suggestions, but one is deeply appropriate.

There were two times a year before Yom Kippur and before Pesaf, when the Gadol Ha'ir,

the great man, the great rave of the city, would expound Torah for the wider community.

And that is why this particular Shabbat was called Shabbat Hagad.

The Shabbat of the Gadol Ha'ir.

Elaine and I have come to the conclusion today of a week of activities dedicated to the recognition of Gadol Ha'Ira-Hazir,

the great Torah leader of this city, Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamb, and this has been for us, and I hope for you, Shabbat

Hagadur, a week of paying tribute to his greatness. Rabbi Shaftar asked a very simple question

and provoked a simple question. If, Hekadoosh Barakou, brought out the Jewish

people alone, Ali, velomalach, I, velo saraf, I nev al-Shaliyah, I did he even need Mosheh

Abinu in the first place? Let him speak directly

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