The Essence of the Holidays

Cooking for Shabbat at the End of Yom Tov

When Was Our Calendar Eternally Fixed?

In our Sedra, Nisan – in deference to it being the month of our liberation from Egypt and our start as a nation - is declared by Hashem to be the first month in the Hebrew year.

What is the Bracha Magen Avos and should we recite it on Yom Kippur?

Where is the bracha of Magen Avos first mentioned? What is the bracha Mei’ein Sheva? On what occasions do we omit reciting the bracha Mei’ein Sheva?