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Rav Yosef was more makpid on Simchat Yom Tov on Shavuot than on other holidays because if not for the Torah he would be like every other Yosef in the marketplace....

What is the difference between the Zohar, composed by R’ Shimon Bar Yochai while hiding in the cave, and the other sefarim on the Chumash written beforehand?

Why were R’ Akiva’s students punished specifically during the omer? What is the significance of Rabbi Akiva expounding on the crowns of the letters in the Torah?

What is charoset? What is it’s significance on the night of the Seder? Some rishonim/achronim say it’s a fruit puree, some say it’s a vegetable puree.

Can you fulfill the mitzva by placing chametz with tasteless, odorless arsenic; putting it in a secure capsule and launching it into outer space; putting it in a particle accelerator and...

The emphasis at the seder is to feel that God took you out of Egypt together with the rest of the nation, that God did this for us. The paragraph of...

We already mention in Dayenu that God gave us the Torah, why is Shabbos singled out? Why focus on the mon and not the other miracles?; B’chol dor v’dor

3 peculiar halachot – even if you are alone you ask yourself the 4 questions. Usually we can’t add to God’s praises, but the seder night is different. What is so...

Chametz represents the old world order (pre-Yetziat Mitzrayim/Matan Torah. Matzah represents the new world order. What changed with the Exodus from Egypt and the Giving of the Torah?

Why does the telling of the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim (Exodus) have to be in question/answer form, even if you’re sitting alone at a seder? Sefer vs sipur. THE ZECHUS OF...