Aside from the number four, one would be hard pressed to find a connection between the four sons of the Haggadah and the four species which have only one kosher characteristic. However, there is a great lesson to be learned from them...

Did you ever try to imagine what King David looked like? I see the stereotype almost every day...

A Lesson For the Children - It all started one winter day in the city of Damascus about 160 years ago. An Italian monk, Badro Thomaso, came to the Jewish market to post a notice about selling something. And from that point the mystery began...

Holy and Secular - The Egyptians are the ones who distributed all the frogs. They kept hitting the first one, and that is how the frogs spread through the land...The Egyptians saw that when they struck the frog it was divided into more and more frogs – why then did they continue hitting it?

A Lesson For the Children - One day a Jew arrived to see Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. He was a simple but very rich man, a great philanthropist and a man of great faith. The man turned to the rabbi and said, "With G-d's help, my house has been blessed and I have great wealth. But there is one thing that causes me great pain and does not let me rest, and that is why I have come to see you."

Land of My Birth - At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from Eretz Yisrael by the Turkish authorities. They established four Hebrew educational facilities in the Syrian capital...

At that moment I know I will ask myself, "Who am I to bring atonement to this man. Am I better than he? True I have not desecrated the Shabbat, but I have my own array of avayrot. So how can I bring about this man's atonement?"

Holy and Secular - "The plague is spreading, it includes almost the entire city," the physician reported to the mayor, "Our beautiful city Sura looks like a battlefield." And the mayor asked...