Classic Yiddish Version of the Ma Nishtano (The Four Questions - די פֿיר קשיות)
Based on
http://www.starkman.com/aviva/yiddish/pesakh.html and
http://www.yiddishvoice.com/peysakh.html
Tate, ikh vil bay dir fregn di fir kashes:
Ma nishtano halaylo haze mikol haleyloys?
Farvos is di dozike nakht fun Peysakh andersh fun ale nekht fun a gants yor?
1. Sheb'khol haleylos -- ale nekht fun a gants yor megn mir esn say khomets, say
matse,
-- ober halaylo haze - in der doziker nakht - nor
matse?
2. Sheb'khol haleyloys - ale nekht fun a gants yor esn mir alerley grinsn,
-- ober halaylo haze - in der doziker nakht - moroyr - bloys bitere
kraytekher?
3. Sheb'khol haleyloys - ale nekht fun a gants yor darfn mir nit ayntunken afile
eyn mol oykh nit,
-- ober halaylo haze - in der doziker nakht -
tunken mir ayn tsvey mol
(eyn mol - tsibele in zalts vaser, un dem tsveytn mol - khreyn in kharoyses)?
4. Sheb'khol haleyloys - ale nekht fun a gants yor kenen mir esn say zitsndik
glaykh, say ongeshpart (ongelent),
-- ober halaylo haze - in der doziker nakht - zitsn mir ale nor ongeshpart (ongelent)?