GROUND COFFEE What could be the issues with unflavored ground coffee - regular or decaf - for Pesach? Regular caffeinated and unflavored coffee is kosher for Pesach even without special supervision. Decaffeinated...
One of the many important halachos that we are faced with at the seder is the proper volume to eat or drink in order to fulfill the mitzvah of the...
With Pesach incredibly just days away, and as we begin once again to say farewell to pizza and pasta, we need to ask ourselves what spiritual lessons we want to...
The Rema Mi’Pano (Rav Menahem Azarya of Fano, Italy, 1548-1620) writes that the verse in Shir Ha’shirim (5:1), “Ichlu Re’im Shetu Ve’shichru Dodim” – “Eat, friends; drink to intoxication, beloved...
I. Berachah Rishonah on Maror Tosfos (Pesachim 115a, s.v. vehadar) raises a basic question regarding the maror eaten at the seder. Why, when we eat maror, do we not recite a...
In too many homes, marror is not the most bitter thing at the seder table. There are people who suffer from chronic negativity, who drag down those around them and...
The number 4, as we all know, features very prominently at the Pesach seder. There are four cups of wine, four questions, four sons, four pesukim from the Book of...
THREE BOYS Those three boys are in the schoolyard bragging of how great their fathers are. The first one says: “Well, my father runs the fastest. He can fire an arrow, and...
The Passover seder is full of fours: four questions, four cups, four sons. The midrashic reading of four sons into the biblical text is brilliant, comparing the four times the...
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 are slaves; next year (may...