Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Berakhot/Chapter 1/5/Translation
- One must mention the exodus from Egypt at night.
- Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah said:
- "Behold, I am like a seventy-year-old man,
- yet I could not win [the argument against the other sages] having the exodus from Egypt recited at night,
- until Ben Zoma derived it [from a Biblical source]."
- "[He derived it as follows:] It says (Deut. 16:3), 'In order that you may remember the day when you left Egypt for all the days of your life.'"
- "Now, 'days of your life' means the days;
- 'All the days of your life' [includes also] the nights."
- But the Sages say:
- "Days of your life" means the present world;
- "All the days of your life" includes also the era of Mashiach.