Every Seder night, we say that we are required to view ourselves as if we left Egypt. What emotions were Bnei Yisrael feeling at the
Pesach is the holiday of geulah, which is usually translated as “redemption.” Our rabbis place geulah at the center of the Seder night by mandating
After the Birkat Hamazon, and before “lo lanu” and the other texts of the fourth cup, the widespread custom is to recite a selection of
For Chol Hamoed Pesach, we have prepared an array of five hikes of varying degrees of difficulty. In each case, this article contains only a
Three Seder Practices Generally speaking, when it comes to the Pesach Seder, people know the details of their own family’s practices but not those of
The great Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchick told the story of a Seder he remembered from when he was six years old, sitting with his family
By Zachary Greenberg Ping-pong, a classic Shabbat pastime for many, has been given a contemporary twist. If you’ve played ping-pong before, you’ll love PingPod —
In honor of the holiday, I’m diverting from Daf Yomi, and focusing on Pesach! Last week, I mentioned that I’ve spotted dozens of hidden examples
First Day of Pesach “Shal na’alecha me’al raglecha … ”As this haftarah closes, we read of an event that should strike a familiar chord to
“Rabban Gamliel used to say: ‘Whoever does not discuss the following three things on Pesach has not fulfilled his duty: Pesach (the Paschal sacrifice); matzah
When I was young, I’d often have to split a cookie with my older brother. Being the middle child, it seemed to me that I
Jewish survival is the greatest anthropological miracle of human history. How did a nation survive a two-thousand year exile, without common currency, flag or land?
