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What is charoset? What is it’s significance on the night of the Seder? Some rishonim/achronim say it’s a fruit puree, some say it’s a vegetable puree.

Can you fulfill the mitzva by placing chametz with tasteless, odorless arsenic; putting it in a secure capsule and launching it into outer space; putting it in a particle accelerator and...

The emphasis at the seder is to feel that God took you out of Egypt together with the rest of the nation, that God did this for us. The paragraph of...

We already mention in Dayenu that God gave us the Torah, why is Shabbos singled out? Why focus on the mon and not the other miracles?; B’chol dor v’dor

3 peculiar halachot – even if you are alone you ask yourself the 4 questions. Usually we can’t add to God’s praises, but the seder night is different. What is so...

Chametz represents the old world order (pre-Yetziat Mitzrayim/Matan Torah. Matzah represents the new world order. What changed with the Exodus from Egypt and the Giving of the Torah?

Why does the telling of the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim (Exodus) have to be in question/answer form, even if you’re sitting alone at a seder? Sefer vs sipur. THE ZECHUS OF...

Chanukah and Purim correspond to the attributes of hod and netzach, two halves of one whole. How do these two opposing attributes work together?

Two halachot pertain to the month of Adar: we increase our joy when Adar begins and it continues into Nisan. If someone has a court case with a gentile he should...

Why don’t we fulfill zechirah, remembering what Amalek did, on purim itself; why does it have to come first and why specifically on shabbos? Why did Esther insist that her book be...