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Chatam Sofer: The Rambam says that the reason Rebbe Elazar ben Azarya appeared old even though he was only 18 is because he was so involved in learning that he aged...

One of the central mitzvah of the Seder night is relating the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The medium we use is the Haggadah. The Haggadah includes not just the...

  Delivered at the OU Israel Center, March 31, 2019, 24 Adar II 5779

 Shiur provided courtesy of Naaleh.com Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein Each of the three-foot festivals is traditionally associated with one of our patriarchs. Pesach is associated with Avraham Avinu. On the simplest...

We are supposed to feel as if we actually left Egypt. How is it possible to achieve this? Three approaches. The idea of Yetziat Mitzrayim has to be so real to...

In a leap year we celebrate Purim in Adar Sheni in order to connect the redemption story of Purim adjacent to the redemption story of Pesach. Why is this more important...

Rebbi Shimon ben Yochai told his students that the Jews in the generation of the Megillah were threatened with destruction because they bowed down to the statue erected by Nevuchadnetzer. Why...

The Rosh says that when the Jews went to fight their enemies they went to war therefore we fast on Taanit Esther to commemorate that. What is the deeper reason? Why...

The Dubno Maggid asks: The Midrash says Moshe offered to give an accounting of all the donations but the proof text the Midrash brings says that one shouldn’t make a cheshbon...

After Shaul left a survivor (Agag), going against what he was commanded, he tells Shmuel “I fulfilled the word of God”. How could he make such a claim? Why does Mordechai...