A Jewish beggar befriended a gentile companion and the two paired up to travel around collecting funds together. The gentile was German, so the two
Eighth Day of Pesach The choice of Chazal to have Perakim 11 and 12 in Yishayahu read on the final day of Chag Hageulah is
The core text of the Haggadah is a paragraph that begins: “Go and learn what Lavan the Aramean sought to do to Yaakov our father.
It has been a long, cold and rainy winter here in Jerusalem. Because it is a leap year, spring in the Jewish calendar has been
We all want to share deep and thoughtful ideas at the Seder in order to enhance the experience. I hope these divrei Torah will aid
Why Pesach? If anything, the hallmark of this Yom Tov is the exodus—leaving the terrible conditions in Mitzrayim—so maybe let’s call it “chag ha’yetziyat Mitzrayim”!
Given the current price per pound, it sure doesn’t feel like Matzah is lechem oni, the bread of the poor person. This year, 200,000 pounds
Years ago, I heard the following story from Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel. It will require a bit of your
While the entire Pesach Seder is centered around retelling the story of our redemption from Egypt, the primary demonstration of publicizing this miracle (pirsumei nisa)
Every year in my family, when I was growing up, we would stop at the seemingly strange citation from Ezekial 16:7 that appears in the
We are all used to the idea that the verb פסח means “pass over” and that our holiday gets its English name from this meaning.
Pesach begins on the night of the 15th day of the month of Nissan and lasts for eight days. This holiday commemorates the departure of
