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Karen A. Van Hoek (kvh@moonpatrol.gpcc.itd.umich.edu) wrote:

: Another guest pointed out that it'd be a bit awkward to ask a non-Jewish
: homeless person to sit through three hours or so of incomprehensible

there are lots of Jews who do not have a seder for various reasons. 
the dual declaration that you mention talks, according to commentators,
both people who have physical & spiritual need. 

given the relative abundance of food vs Jewish knowledge in US, I would
spend more on the latter

: is there anything else?  It'd be impossible to do a dinner for the poor
: when we're busy with the seder, but I'm thinking that next Erev Pesach,
: since I'll be cooking so much anyway, I'll just make one extra dish, put

in my experience, you can easily fit 20+ people into almost any room.
so, just find those people in the area, and invite them for a seder.
 
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