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Search Results for: passover

  • Knowing The Kosher Code Words
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/02/knowing-the-kosher-code-words/

    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…

  • Kadesh u’R’chatz – 14 Steps or 15 Steps?
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/kadesh-urchatz-14-steps-or-15-steps/

    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…

  • Parashat Emor
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-emor-2/

    …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,…

  • Parashat Vayikra
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-vayikra/

    …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…

  • Na’aseh VeNishmah: How to Have Best of Both Worlds
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/naaseh-venishmah-how-to-have-best-of-both-worlds/

    …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…

  • Parashat Bo
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-bo-2/

    …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…

  • Parashat Va’eira
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-vaeira/

    …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…