The Korban Pesah stands out as the sole Korban that must be fire roasted—“Tzeli Eish.” Every other Korban that is consumed may be prepared “B’Chol
One of the potentially biggest themes in the Exodus from Egypt and the seder night is language. Psychologists and anthropologists have deemed language to be
The Sages tell us, “There are three partners in man—the Holy One, blessed be He, the father, and the mother” (Kiddushin 30b). Couples who are
Calling Pesach the holiday of freedom seems to be very paradoxical. We clean our houses, cars and offices in such onerous and arduous fashion, that
I have always been amazed by the “popularity” of the Pesach holiday. People who may not enter a synagogue more than three times a year
The source of idolatry, among the gravest offenses a religious person can commit, lies atop a slippery slope. It comes not from a search for
Of the hundreds of thousands of seforim published over the years and those that continue to make their way to the neighborhood Judaic stores in
This article is modified from a speech introducing the SINAI Shalem boys’ performance of The Wizard of Oz on April 12, 2016. The students began
Editor’s Note: The Modern-Day Dayeinu Song appears in The Krengel Family Edition of The Koren Mahzor for Yom HaAtzma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim (https://korenpub.com/koren/intusd/tefilla/mahzor-holiday-prayer-book/yom-haatzmaut-yom-yeruhalayim-mahzor), a historic
It sounds like we are discussing the details of a shidduch possibility. Rarely do we hear the question, “Is he or she intelligent? Do they
One of the key questions for Modern Orthodox Jews to ask—and constantly re-ask—ourselves is how public we are with our Judaism. For Ultra Orthodox Jews,
I travel to Israel on business for my law firm a couple of times a year. Last year, I arrived in Tel Aviv two days
