All posts in: Pesach

• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Kill The Jews

  We say on seder night, “An Aramean tried to destroy my father” (implying the whole Jewish people). How do we know this? The Gemorah in Gittin 64a relates ..

  Written by Anonymous
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• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Le-Al

  Pesachim 7b “… Al Biur Chametz (regarding the disposal of leaven).” (Gemara Pesachim 7b) We are familiar with the fact that some blessings end with the formula ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Le-Al

  Pesachim 7b “… Al Biur Chametz (regarding the disposal of leaven).” (Gemara Pesachim 7b) We are familiar with the fact that some blessings end with the formula ..

  Written by Anonymous
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  Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Matzos = Mitzvos

  It is no coincidence that the word Matzos is exactly the same word as mitzvos. For matza to be ‘non chametz’ it must be baked within 18 minutes – ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Tam

  Tam- The Simple Child ? We are all familiar with the simple child in the Pesach Haggadah’s Four Questions. Tam in this context is normally interpreted to mean ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: That Elijah breeze

  Why do we open the door for Eliyahu? It’s freezing outside. Three suggestions: 1) Eliyahu needs a drink. 2) It’s “leil shemurim” – ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: The Beginning of Time

  Did you know, that our Sages didn’t institute the festival of Purim immediately after the miracle of Purim occurred! They waited a year. Why would they wait ..

  Written by Tal Segal
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: The Four Sons

  We are all familiar with the ‘four sons’, but have we ever taken the time to think about why this passage is in the Haggadah? In truth it embodies the essential ..

  Written by Josh Phillips
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Violent Cats

  How can a cat take on a goat? Goat’s are bigger. And we’re not talking about a lion. It would make an interesting fight. Rav Michoel Fodor quotes a Gemorah ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: What’s so good about Rabbi Akiva anyway?

  A quick song… Of Rabbi Eliezer a story is told Of Rabbi Yehoshua that scholar of old Elazar ben Azariah, Akiva the sage And Tarfon for wisdom, reknowned in his age. ..

  Written by Anonymous