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Jewish Holidays

Passover or Pesach commemorates the day the Jewish people were freed from Egypt and is marked on the first night by the Seder and the reading of the Haggadah which relates the story of the exodus from Egypt

When Erev Pesach Falls on Shabbos
When Erev Pesach Falls on Shabbos
In 2021 and 2025, erev Pesach falls on Shabbos, as it does approximately once every nine years. With proper planning, it need not be a difficult Shabbos. If anything, it gives...
Mar 2, 2021
By Rabbi Moshe Zywica
The Conditional Afikoman: The Tnai of the Avnei Nezer
The Conditional Afikoman: The Tnai of the Avnei Nezer
Postscript regarding Purim Meshulash: Although there are different opinions, according to the Luach Eretz Yisrael of R. Tukachinsky, which is the most widely followed compendium of minhagim, Al HaNissim is NOT...
Feb 17, 2021
By Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz
Personal Redemption
Personal Redemption
It is a positive command of the Torah to discuss the miracles and wonders that were done for our ancestors in Egypt on the night of the fifteenth of Nisan. [This...
Jun 5, 2020
By Rabbi Bernie Fox
Az Yashir
Az Yashir
Apr 14, 2020
By Rabbi Baruch Taub
A Cryptic Footnote to the Bris Bein Habesarim
A Cryptic Footnote to the Bris Bein Habesarim
Did you ever notice how bizarre everything about the Bris Bein Habesarim is and how unintelligible is most of the symbolim? Everything about it has a surreal quality. Much of it...
Apr 12, 2020
By Barry Yaffe
Making Sense of the Seder
Making Sense of the Seder
Apr 8, 2020
By Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
This Year We Brought the Korban Pesach Many Times
This Year We Brought the Korban Pesach Many Times
The chilling, Divinely-inspired insight of Rav Chaim Falagi and its frightening ramifications To receive source sheets for any of Rabbi Glatstein’s shiurim, please email rabbiglatsteinsourcesheets@gmail.com Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime 
Apr 7, 2020
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
From Individuals to Families to a Nation
From Individuals to Families to a Nation
A message for bedikas & biur chometz, leil haSeder and the omer
Apr 7, 2020
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
The Prohibition of Doing Melacha after Chatzos on Erev Pesach
The Prohibition of Doing Melacha after Chatzos on Erev...
To receive source sheets for any of Rabbi Glatstein’s shiurim, please email rabbiglatsteinsourcesheets@gmail.com Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime 
Apr 7, 2020
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Mystery of Yud Gimmel Nisan: Five Approaches
The Mystery of Yud Gimmel Nisan: Five Approaches
To receive source sheets for any of Rabbi Glatstein’s shiurim, please email rabbiglatsteinsourcesheets@gmail.com Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime 
Apr 7, 2020
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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