Catch the Fish – The Adar Power of Double
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The Mitzvah of Reading the Megillah
What are we fulfilling with the reading the megillah? Recounting the miracle is a form of publicizing the miracle and thus takes on an amplified status among mitzvot d’rabbanan. The obligation...
The Halachos of Purim
From Purim to Pesach: A Season of Miracles
This shiur uncovers a deeper connection between Purim and Pesach. Using classical and contemporary sources while focusing on the texts of both Megillas Esther and those relating to Pesach, we discover...
Reading the Megillah from the Perspective of the Rambam’s...
The Real Story of Purim
The Purim story is the last time when all the Jews lived under one empire. Normally when there is a war against one enemy we celebrate victory on one day, if...
Purim Katan: Emunah & Simcha
Two Purims? A Deeper Look at the Jewish Calendar
The Rambam defines the mitzvah of kiddush hachodesh as sanctifying the month and intercalating the months to ensure that Pesach will always fall in the Spring. Hashem wants us to be...
Tu B’Shevat, Tu B’Av, and Creation
Bnei Yissaschar: There is a machloket when the world was created in Nisan (beginning with 25th of Adar) or in Tishrei (beginning with 25th of Elul). Tu B’Shevat is 40 days...
The Mystical Meaning of Tu B’Shevat
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- Asarah B'Tevet
- Birchat HaChama
- Chanukah
- Elul
- Fast of Esther
- Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz
- Fast of Tisha B'Av
- Four Shabbatot
- Hoshanah Rabbah
- Lag BaOmer
- Months
- Passover
- Pesach Sheini
- Purim
- Rosh Hashanah
- Sefirat HaOmer
- Shabbat
- Shavuot
- Shemini Atzeret
- Shushan Purim
- Simchat Torah
- Sukkot
- The Three Weeks
- Tu B'Av
- Tu B'Shevat
- Tzom Gedaliah
- Yom HaAtzmaut
- Yom HaShoah
- Yom Hazikaron
- Yom Kippur
- Yom Yerushalayim
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