{"id":47138,"date":"2019-04-03T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T09:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=47138"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T09:50:42","slug":"what-do-we-tell-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/what-do-we-tell-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Tell the Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only two mitzvot where the Torah repeatedly uses the concept of \u05e9\u05de\u05d9\u05e8\u05d4 (guarding) are Shabbos and Pesach. What is the common denominator and why are they so important?<\/p>\n<p>Pesach has a lower level of \u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05de\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05e1\u05d0 than Chanukah &#8211; we just have to tell our children; Shabbos has a lower level than Pesach, we just have to tell ourselves (via Kiddush). Why do these two holidays have less of an obligation to publicize the miracle?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shiur provided courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torahanytime.com\/\"><strong>Torah Anytime<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-47138 wp-image-36223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/torah\/files\/TorahAnyTimeLogo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Torah Anytime Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only two mitzvot where the Torah repeatedly uses the concept of \u05e9\u05de\u05d9\u05e8\u05d4 (guarding) are Shabbos and Pesach. What is the common denominator and why are they so important? Pesach has a lower level of \u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05de\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05e1\u05d0 than Chanukah &#8211; we just have to tell our children; Shabbos has a lower level than Pesach, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133454,"featured_media":47140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passover","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Do We Tell the Children? - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The only two mitzvot where the Torah repeatedly uses the concept of \u05e9\u05de\u05d9\u05e8\u05d4 (guarding) are Shabbos and Pesach. 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