…Passover supplies of the nonperishable sort. Then they said that you should not buy it, but if you had, you could use it on Passover. It fell into the category…
At the beginning of the Seder, we chant Kadesh uRchatz. Many Haggadot have this arranged as 14 steps and others have 15 steps. The key difference is: Motzi-Matzah? Are they…
…and sacred bond, one with the other, we call it Kiddushin, Marriage. When we celebrate the sacredness of the Sabbath, the joy of Simchat Torah, the freedom exemplified by Passover,…
…before Passover. The reason is to commemorate God’s extreme punishment of the Egyptians with the tenth plague, His ultimate punishment, the slaying of the firstborn Egyptian sons. Every Hebrew family…
…observing, with no sense of irony, that the wafer he received at Communion was not dissimilar to Passover matzoh, Goldberg concludes (mercifully) “Upon reflection, Christmas was a wonderful day. Not…
…sacrifice of the Passover to Hashem…” (Exodus 12:26-27) And you shall tell your son that on day saying, “It is because of what Hashem did for me when I came…
…the Passover Seder, one for each of the descriptions of redemption used by God. According to the Rabbis, these words are not merely synonyms, and the repetition of phrases is…