The Ritva's method emphasizes reciting the Haggadah with joy and gratitude, questioning the source of its words, and how it is fitting to say the Haggadah text in a manner of gratitude. Now it becomes clear that one must recount from the Haggadah text as if everything written in it is happening now, not just as a historical event that occurred to our ancestors. This arouses one to joyfully recount the miracles, wonders, salvations, and comfort, the Exodus from slavery to freedom, from sorrow to joy, and so forth. This is the intent of the Ritva's words that one should recount with joy, because by recounting as if it is happening now, joy is awakened in one's heart, and with gratitude, one recounts the written text in the Haggadah with a sense of thankfulness, declaring with a voice of gratitude to the One who has done the greatest good to them, beyond whom none is higher, and saved their life in every sense. The Ritva's intent is not to recount in a language of praise and thanks for the greatness of the Creator who did all this, but in a language of thanks to the One who has done to them the greatest good.