This Pesach, the Yeshivat Frisch community will have the opportunity to be inspired by a new Haggadah, filled with divrei Torah by current students and faculty. The project was conceptualized and edited by two Frisch seniors, Talya Lowensteiner and Naava Karben, both of whom served this year as part of the editorial staff of Frisch’s weekly parsha publication, Be’er Shavua.

“Ever since freshman year, we have always done some sort of divrei Torah collection with our Judaic classes and have found them extremely meaningful,” Lowensteiner and Karben explained, noting that their favorite part of Pesach is being able to share divrei Torah with their families on Seder night. “For our senior year, we wanted to expand this and open it up to the entire school to make a Haggadah everyone could contribute to.”

Frisch Talmud faculty department member Rabbi Yaakov Blau assisted in the late stages of the editing process. “Talya and Naava are both very special people who are always looking for opportunities to enhance our yeshiva as a Makom Torah,” said Rabbi Blau. “They took the initiative to make the Haggadah, recruited articles and did the layout, putting in hours and hours of work as a labor of love. The Haggadah has divrei Torah from 40 people, representing the full spectrum of grades and faculty, both limudei kodesh and limudei chol. It was beautiful to see so many members of the Frisch family work together to infuse all of our Sedarim with divrei Torah.”

Yashar koach on this wonderful endeavor, and chag kasher v’sameach!