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• The Night of the Watch, A Modern Midrash
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2021/03/the-night-of-the-watch-a-modern-midrash/

  One of the names of the Passover eve is called in the Bible: “The Night of The Watch” (ליל שימורים). The Hebrew/Israelite children about 3,500 years ago could not sleep…

• Rabbis Share Divrei Torah as Passover Approaches During the Coronavirus Pandemic
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/videos/rabbis-share-divrei-torah-as-passover-approaches-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2/

• Rosh Hashanah – Adam 1, Adam 2, and COVID-19
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/rosh-hashanah-adam-1-adam-2-and-covid-19/

  …he took another 3 pairs of dentures aside, and explained: and you see, Passover is coming up. On Passover, we can’t eat leaven, and so I require a whole different…

• Non-Orthodox Attendees in Orthodox Shuls
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/non-orthodox-attendees-in-orthodox-shuls/

  …encouraged, because by rejecting the convert’s Jewish identity, the rabbinate tempts the convert to sin. The Passover Seder would be incomplete without the cynical and clue – less sons found…

• (Video/Text) What Does It Mean to Rest on Shabbat and Holidays?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/what-does-it-mean-to-rest-on-shabbat-and-holidays/

  …stream zoom seders over Passover – they said turn the computer on before Yom Tov and you could live stream the seder. This sounds like a nice compassionate hora’at sha’ah…

• Kaddish for Yizkor
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/kaddish-for-yizkor/

  …said on days when tahnanun, or penitential prayers, are not said, [b] yet Yizkor is recited on Shemini ‘Atseret, the season of our joy, the last day of Passover, the…

• Reconstructing Orthodoxy
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/12/reconstructing-orthodoxy/

  …command with roots, including the horseradish root. The rabbinic “authorities” who choose to ignore this Oral Torah law are in philological, and therefore Halakhic error. At https://jewishaction.com/religion/shabbat-holidays/passover/whats-truth-using-horseradish-maror/, R. Ari Zivitovsky…

• A Child Who Reaches Majority in the Middle of Mourning
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/a-child-who-reaches-majority-in-the-middle-of-mourning/

  …minor is permanently absolved of this obligation. This is seen in Pesahim 93a, which discusses the second Passover (Pesah Sheni). The second Passover is an opportunity for those who were…

• Beha’alotecha – Challenging the Status Quo
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/behaalotecha-challenging-the-status-quo/

  …impure. God responds that they are to bring the Passover offering a month later, on what is now known as “פסח שני,” the Second Passover. Rashi, reflecting the midrash, notes…

• Beha’alotecha – You Can’t Always Get What You Want
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/behaalotecha-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/

  …noting that halakhah prohibited them from participating in the Passover sacrifice because they were ritually impure. God responds that they are to bring the Passover offering a month later, on…

• Is It Permissible to Smoke?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/is-it-permissible-to-smoke/

  …responsa. In vol. 3, #18, he was asked if cigarettes need special certification for Passover and if it is permissible to smoke after eating the afikoman. He refused to answer…

• Dayeinu (Covid-19 Edition)
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/04/dayeinu-covid-19-edition/

  …not set up a dedicated Passover aisle. No cake meal or kosher-for-Passover Cheerios to be found. I came home with the eggs and a large horseradish root. It is, after…