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Passover begins in the evening of April 12, 2025
Passover ends in the evening of April 20, 2025

Passover or Pesach commemorates the day the Jewish people were freed from Egypt and is marked on the first night by the Seder and the reading of the Haggadah which relates the story of the exodus from Egypt

Pesach Today: The Answer to the Rasha – A Revolutionary Approach to Mitzvot
Pesach Today: The Answer to the Rasha – A...
Why did Yitzchak celebrating the holiday of Pesach before the event even happened!?! Why don’t we say אף הן היו באותו הנס for a מצוה דאורייתא?? Why don’t we say the...
Mar 15, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Structure of the Haggadah
The Structure of the Haggadah
Rabbi Gold’s shiur is sponsored in memory of the 30th yartzeit of חנה לאה בת יוסף Eshet chayil of יחיאל שטערן ז”ל by Kaylie Berger and Faygie Hadari; in Loving Memory...
Mar 13, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold
The Seder: Creating the Final Redemption
The Seder: Creating the Final Redemption
If you think the Seder night is a culinary experience you missed the point. What are we trying to accomplish on the night seder? Why do we begin and end with...
Mar 13, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Recognition and Rejoicement
Recognition and Rejoicement
 Shiur provided courtesy of Naaleh.com Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein             An integral part of the Haggadah is the recitation of Hallel comprised of five paragraphs from Psalms. The Hallel begins with...
Mar 9, 2018
By Shira Smiles
Wine-Induced Thoughts
Wine-Induced Thoughts
Therefore, when one conducts a meal on this night, he is required to eat and to drink while reclining in the manner of a free person. Every person – man and...
Feb 13, 2018
By Rabbi Bernie Fox
Mikra Bikkurim and How We Tell the Story of Yetziat Mitzrayim
Mikra Bikkurim and How We Tell the Story of...
This shiur provided courtesy of The Tanach Study Center In memory of Rabbi Abraham Leibtag  Understanding Magid: A Biblical Perspective – Expression of Gratitude  or  Recognition of Destiny Should Passover be understood as our ‘holiday of freedom’...
Oct 15, 2017
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Shvii Shel Pesach – the 7th Day of Chag HaMatzot
Shvii Shel Pesach – the 7th Day of Chag...
This shiur provided courtesy of The Tanach Study Center In memory of Rabbi Abraham Leibtag We are all familiar with the historical reason for celebrating the ‘seventh day of Passover’ –...
Oct 3, 2017
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
The Four Sons in the Chumash and the Haggadah
The Four Sons in the Chumash and the Haggadah
This shiur provided courtesy of The Tanach Study Center In memory of Rabbi Abraham Leibtag Are the ‘Four Sons’ really in the Bible? When we quote that Midrash at the Seder,...
Oct 3, 2017
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Dayenu: Would It Have Been Enough?
Dayenu: Would It Have Been Enough?
This shiur provided courtesy of The Tanach Study Center In memory of Rabbi Abraham Leibtag How could an observant Jew say, let alone sing, that -‘it would have been enough’- even...
Oct 3, 2017
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Yemei HaGeulah 5768 – Rabbi Akiva
Yemei HaGeulah 5768 – Rabbi Akiva
Despite R’ Akiva’s losing 24,000 students, he did not give up hope and went and acquired 5 new students in order to reinvigorate the future of the Jewish people.
Sep 10, 2017
By Rabbi Shalom Hammer

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