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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

Chad Gadya: Not Just a Children’s Song
Chad Gadya: Not Just a Children’s Song
Delivered at the OU Israel Center, March 25, 2018 (9 Nisan 5778) Rabbi Breitowitz Sunday Morning shiur is sponsored by Mel David in Gratitude to Hashem for the many blessings he has been...
Mar 25, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz
Rav Chaim Brisker’s Landmark Understanding of Makkat Bechorot Answers the Question of the Chofetz Chaim
Rav Chaim Brisker’s Landmark Understanding of Makkat Bechorot Answers...
The Tur says that Emet V’Yatziv has an advantage over Shema in that it mentions not only Yetziat Mitzrayim but also Kriyat Yam Suf, and Makat Bechorot. Why do we mention...
Mar 25, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The “Yachatz” Mystery…and How Yitzchak Avinu Always Comes Through in the Clutch
The “Yachatz” Mystery…and How Yitzchak Avinu Always Comes Through...
Download the source sheet The Ba’al HaTurim at the beginning of Va’era points out that the gematria of the word Va’era is 208, the same as Yitzchak because it was in...
Mar 22, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Lomdut of Selling Chametz
The Lomdut of Selling Chametz
Can you sell someone else’s chametz? Even if they appoint you as a שליח, all you are doing is delivering someone’s words to the one selling chametz and we say “מילי...
Mar 21, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Ha Lachma Anya: It All Boils Down to 1
Ha Lachma Anya: It All Boils Down to 1
The Chida writes that the whole purpose of the Haggadah is Hashem Echad, Echad mi Yodea, to reach the point where we realize that there is only 1 G-d. This is...
Mar 20, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Jewish People – Authorized Story Tellers
The Jewish People – Authorized Story Tellers
Mar 20, 2018
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
God, Too, Craves Approval
God, Too, Craves Approval
Recorded at the OU Israel Center, 4 Nisan 5778 (March 20th, 2018).
Mar 20, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold
The Siman of Rabbi Yehuda: The Landmark Revelation of the Sefat Emet
The Siman of Rabbi Yehuda: The Landmark Revelation of...
Why did Rabbi Yehuda feel a need to come up with a mnemonic for the 10 makkot, they aren’t that hard to remember – we don’t have a mnemonic for other...
Mar 20, 2018
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
An Exodus to Personal Freedom
An Exodus to Personal Freedom
Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event
Mar 19, 2018
By Ita Teigman
Chametz, Matzah, and the Middah of Zerizut: Philosophical and Practical Applications in a Woman’s Life
Chametz, Matzah, and the Middah of Zerizut: Philosophical and...
Download the source sheet here Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event
Mar 19, 2018
By Dina Schoonmaker

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