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Passover (Pesach)

Passover (Pesach)

Explore Passover’s customs, including Seder rituals, Torah readings, and symbolic foods, embodying freedom and faith in Jewish tradition.

Torah Reading for Passover

Passover Torah Reading

Delve into the rich tradition of Torah reading for Passover, uncovering its meaning and unique customs that enrich the celebration.

The 2024 Approved Passover Food List

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Here is this year’s Approved Kosher for Passover Food List. We are grateful to kashrut.org for their continuous efforts in creating and maintaining this list.

I Can’t Believe It’s Written! – Pesah 3

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Pesah Edition, P. 3 Yesterday we read this paragraph from Shulhan Arukh: Orah Haim 447:4: If hametz was mixed [into something else] before Pesah and was nullified by a ratio of sixty, it does nor reawaken on Pesah to make the mixture forbidden by even a small amount, and some disagree. Rema: and the practice […]

Matzah on Erev Pesah, part 1

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In the laws of Hametz and Matzah (6:12), Maimonides writes: אָסְרוּ חֲכָמִים לֶאֱכֹל מַצָּה בְּעֶרֶב הַפֶּסַח כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּהְיֶה הֶכֵּר לַאֲכִילָתָהּ בָּעֶרֶב. וּמִי שֶׁאָכַל מַצָּה בְּעֶרֶב הַפֶּסַח מַכִּין אוֹתוֹ מַכַּת מַרְדּוּת עַד שֶׁתֵּצֵא נַפְשׁוֹ The sages have forbidden the eating of matzah on the day preceding Pesaḥ, so it will be obvious when people eat Matzah […]

Dayenu Strong

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Pesah Message כנגד ארבעה בנים דברה תורה, האחד עוטף ביתו בנייר כסף, אחד דורש ביציאת מצרים כל הלילה, אחד סובל מכאבי בטן עד שבועות, ואחד חוגג “כושר סטייל” בפלורידה, וכולם, כל הארבעה, אוהבים את פסח  (מדרש חדש מן הגניזה האמריקאית) The Torah speaks of four sons, one wraps his house in aluminum foil, one speaks […]

Monotheistic Matzah and Protective Pesah

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“They shall eat the meat on that night, roasted, with matzoth and bitter herbs” The first ever lean burger, is the central dish, at least verbally, at our Seder table. We all follow the Mishnaic maxim of Rabban Gamliel, which obligates us to pronounce the words פסח מצה ומרור – but there is something much […]

Law of Responsibility

שָׁלֹ֣שׁ רְגָלִ֔ים תָּחֹ֥ג לִ֖י בַּשָּׁנָֽה – You shall celebrate three pilgrimage holidays a year (Ex. 23:14) We all know the three pilgrimage holidays, Pesah, Shavuot, and Sukkot. Do we also know how Shavuot differs from the other two? Well, to begin with, Shavuot has no set day in the Torah, but is rather celebrated fifty […]

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