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Shabbat Hagadol The Laws of Pesach The Seder Night Shiurim about Pesach Chol Hamoed

Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
IN EVERY GENERATION
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
How Fast Must I Eat?
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
Part II The Content of Slavery and the Content of Kingdom
The soul of a Jew is connected to the idea of malchut, of not being in need.
Parashat Hashavua
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
The Way to Make Charoset
Are there halachot of how to make charoset, or is the (approximate) final product the important thing?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THIS IS BIG, FOLKS!
Shabbat Hagadol
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
What Is the Brocha?
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
part I The Content of Slavery and the Content of Kingdom
The Seder night is accompanied by songs of freedom, greatness, and malchut, which form a contrast to the situation we could have sunk into had we remained in Egypt, as permanent slaves in the “house of slaves.” We set an atmosphere of “All Jews are the sons of kings” (Shabbat 67a) and “are fit to be kings” (Horiyot 13a).
Parashat Hashavua
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
The Logic Behind the Unusual Fast of the Firstborn
What type of fast is ta’anit bechorot on Erev Pesach? If it is a real fast, why do people use a loophole (taking part in a siyum) to get out of it?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions
Adar II 28 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
In Search of the Place of Matza
The preparations for Pesach intensify with Rosh Chodesh falling out on Shabbat and the reading of Parashat Hachodesh. Parashat Hachodesh is the first mention in the Torah of eating matza in connection to Pesach. Matza is presented as a food that is eaten along with the Korban Pesach and that is eaten throughout the duration of the seven-day festival. We also find that one must remove chametz on the “first day” because it is forbidden to eat chametz all seven days (Shemot 12:15).
Parashat Hashavua
Adar II 28 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Indigestible Matzos, or Performing Mitzvos When Suffering from Food Allergies
Nisan 12 5778 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
See and Sanctify
“This month is for you the ‘head’ of months, the first of the months of the year it shall be for you” (Shemot 12:2). The Mechilta (Bo 1) comments on this: Moshe had trouble telling when the new month was considered to have come … until Hashem showed him the moon as it was renewed and said to him: “See the moon when it is like this and sanctify it.” The nations of the world count from Tishrei; Israel counts from Nisan. We have a tradition that Nisan is the month of liberation: “In Nisan they were liberated; in Nisan, they are destined to be liberated” (Rosh Hashana 11a).
Parashat Hashavua
Nisan 12 5778 | ---- ---
Maror and Korech
Matza is a remembrance of freedom and serves as a reminder that all the ways of Hashem are reliable results that follow the true general nature of the Nation of Israel. True freedom is to develop according to the nation’s internal nature, without allowing the intermingling of foreign elements that disturb matters.
Ein Ayah
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
What do we do when Pesach falls on Shabbat?
Passover - Pesach
Nisan 13 5778 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
May I Enter the Room that I Sold to the Non-Jew?
Nisan 13 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
PESACH: BLOOD AND GUTS
Passover - Pesach
Nisan 6 5778 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
The Matzoh Shoppers Guide – Part II
Tzav
Nisan 6 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
JUST SAY, “THANKS!”
Tzav Shabbat Hagadol
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Appreciate the small things too!
The Seder Night
Adar 28 5778 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
The Matzoh Shoppers Guide
Vayikra
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Why drink four glasses of wine? Are we sots?
The Seder Night