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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

Gaining Our Freedom Each and Every Year: A Pesach Message
Gaining Our Freedom Each and Every Year: A Pesach...
”In each and every generation” – and in fact every single year – we are obligated to see ourselves as having personally left the slavery of Egypt, no doubt an educational...
Mar 25, 2010
By Judah S. Harris
The Four Sons: Revisiting a Familiar Passover Narrative
The Four Sons: Revisiting a Familiar Passover Narrative
The stage is set – the table is bedecked in fine linen; the chairs, with soft pillows. The props are in place – the Seder plate, Elijah’s cup, the matzot. The...
Mar 24, 2010
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Charlie Harary – Foundations: Passover
Charlie Harary – Foundations: Passover
In this Foundations video Charlie Harary addresses the question of why we go into so much detail in retelling the Passover story and why the story is so important.
Mar 23, 2010
By Charlie Harary
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Mishnas Chayim for Parshas Tzav & Pesach – A most striking aspect of the Pesach Haggadah is the enigmatic introduction to the Exodus narrative. A central section of the Haggadah is...
Mar 23, 2010
By Rabbi Mayer Erps
OU Kosher Pre-Pesach Webcast 5770 (2010)
OU Kosher Pre-Pesach Webcast 5770 (2010)
In this extra-special VIDEO, the OU Kashruth’s Senior Poskim, Rav Yisroel Belsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, and Rav Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon, provide practical...
Mar 22, 2010
By Rav Yisroel Belsky, Rav Hershel Schachter
Haggadah Nissim of Moshe
Haggadah Nissim of Moshe
The haggadah Nissim of Moshe. What is our obligation on the seder night according to the Rambam? What are his proofs? What does “mora gadol” mean? What is the uniqueness of Moshe’s nevuah (prophecy)?
Mar 19, 2010
By Esther Wein
Kitniyot: A Lesson in Legumes
Kitniyot: A Lesson in Legumes
OU-D, OU-Fish, OU-P—is there anything left? YES! The OU has unveiled a new kashrut symbol: OU-Kitniyot. This symbol is designed to help those who eat kitniyot during Passover. For background data,...
Mar 17, 2010
By Rabbi Eli Gersten
PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery
PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery
The hand matzah you’ll eat the nights of the seder could have come from any one of a number of bakeries, but if it came from the Charedim Matzah Bakery in...
Mar 17, 2010
By Judah S. Harris
Teaching the Value of Freedom at the Seder
Teaching the Value of Freedom at the Seder
Imagine the following Seder “teaching” technique. (Full disclosure: my wife has forbidden me from actually doing this at our Seder this year. Or any year.) After Kiddush, sometime after eating the...
Mar 17, 2010
By rabbi reuven spolter
Writing the Story
Writing the Story
Moses is described as the “safra rabbah, the great scribe of Israel” (Sotah 13b). Moses was surely a scribe in the technical sense; as Rambam noted in his Introduction to the Mishneh...
Mar 9, 2010
By Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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