Rav Chaim Brisker’s Landmark Understanding of Makkat Bechorot Answers...
The Tur says that Emet V’Yatziv has an advantage over Shema in that it mentions not only Yetziat Mitzrayim but also Kriyat Yam Suf, and Makat Bechorot. Why do we mention...
The “Yachatz” Mystery…and How Yitzchak Avinu Always Comes Through...
Download the source sheet The Ba’al HaTurim at the beginning of Va’era points out that the gematria of the word Va’era is 208, the same as Yitzchak because it was in...
The Lomdut of Selling Chametz
Can you sell someone else’s chametz? Even if they appoint you as a שליח, all you are doing is delivering someone’s words to the one selling chametz and we say “מילי...
Ha Lachma Anya: It All Boils Down to 1
The Chida writes that the whole purpose of the Haggadah is Hashem Echad, Echad mi Yodea, to reach the point where we realize that there is only 1 G-d. This is...
God, Too, Craves Approval
Recorded at the OU Israel Center, 4 Nisan 5778 (March 20th, 2018).
The Siman of Rabbi Yehuda: The Landmark Revelation of...
Why did Rabbi Yehuda feel a need to come up with a mnemonic for the 10 makkot, they aren’t that hard to remember – we don’t have a mnemonic for other...
An Exodus to Personal Freedom
Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event
Chametz, Matzah, and the Middah of Zerizut: Philosophical and...
Download the source sheet here Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event
Symbolism in the Haggadah
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Rosh Chodesh and Control Over Time: Our First Mitzvah...
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