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...
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...
Jewish Law: Selling Chametz
The Torah forbids a Jew, during Pesach, not just from eating chametz but even from deriving benefit from his chametz. Furthermore, there is an additional prohibition of even owning chametz on...
Matzah and Maror
Matzah — The festival of Passover is the celebration of our freedom. Passover not only commemorates an act of liberation in the dim past, but reminds us that the aspiration to...
Passover Recipes With Horseradish
You can utilize horseradish in a bunch of different recipes that can take ho-hum Pesach fare and turn it into to fantastic food that just happens to be Pesach-friendly. The sharp...
The Haggadah: An Eyewitness Account
The word haggadah is related to haggadat edut – we testify that we ourselves left Egypt. Testimony can only be given by the witness not via another witness. Presented by Rabbi...
Geulah and Pidyon
Understanding Rav Elazar ben Azarya’s opinion that one is obligated to speak of the Exodus at night and the difference between Geulah & Pidyon and body & soul. Esther Wein’s new...
Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: 60 cookies 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup margarine 2 eggs 2 teaspoons Pesach vanilla extract 1 tablespoon water 1½ cups potato starch 1½ cups matzah cake...
Consequences: A Holiday Story
I had just located the parsley, hidden in a back corner of the refrigerator, when the phone rang. Extracting myself from the fridge, I found my twin sister Amy on the...
Pesach: The Ultimate Stimulus Plan
Few government plans have caused more furor and fury, more debate and deliberation than the $789 billion economic stimulus plan approved by both the Congress and the Senate back on Feb....
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