27 Mar PESACH NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM – IF…
Next Year In Jerusalem – If: The Symbolism of the “Two Dippings” Every Passover Seder begins with a plea: “This year we are here; next year (may we be) in the Land of Israel. This year we...
Next Year In Jerusalem – If: The Symbolism of the “Two Dippings” Every Passover Seder begins with a plea: “This year we are here; next year (may we be) in the Land of Israel. This year we...
The centerpiece of Pesach is certainly the matzah and the villain of Pesach is the chometz. The difference between chometz and matzah is a mere moment. One of the great themes of Pesach is the value of a...
One of the halachos of baking matzah is (Shulchan Aruch 459:2), Don’t leave the dough idle without working it – even for a moment.” Working with the dough prevents it from becoming chametz. The Satmar Rebbe zt’l said that this halacha hints at...
Must I use wine for the four cups, or may I use grape juice instead? There are two schools of thought among the Poskim. R’ Moshe Feinstein (Hagaddah Kol Dodi 3:4) maintains that since Chazal...
Toward the end of Maggid – the main section of the Haggadah, when we discuss Yesiat Misrayim in fulfillment of the obligation to speak about the miraculous Exodus from Egypt on this night – we cite a Halachic...
It’s almost Pesach, so much to plan, so much to prepare. On our to-do list is purchasing wine for the seder. Some like it sweet, others appreciate a dry wine. The connoisseurs amongst us...
What If? “If the Holy One, blessed be He, had not taken our fathers out of Egypt, then we, our children and our children’s children would have remained enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt.” -- The Haggadah Really? We would...
I once attended a funeral for a woman whose life had been marked by tension and complexity. There was a palpable strain among her children and grandchildren, and speaker after speaker, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, hinted at the conflicts...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, a group that transformed the landscape of Jewish music and inspired a generation of seekers to connect to Yiddishkeit through song. Emerging from the...
I. Danger in Yeshiva? It is now common for many American yeshiva students to spend a “gap year” in Israel after high school. This year usually fosters religious growth through intense study in a specialized environment. Since war began with...