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Dreams and Details: The Meanin
Imagine you are a slave. And not only that--your parents were slaves, too. And their parents before them. And their parents, too. If there is one seemingly incontrovertible, self-e ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
From Commandment to Companions
God's activity in the Exodus is two-fold: dismantling Egyptian society through the plagues on the one hand, and disclosing the first mitzvot to Israel - counting time and the Pesah ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
What is the story of the Jewis
If you were to write the story of the Jewish people, what would it be? What major plot elements would you include? How would you frame the arc of the story? In many ways, this ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
Pour Out Your Anger (Source sh
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name for they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home..Clear ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Calev Ben Dor -
Singing it old school
Samantha and Samara, and Rachel and Reut, and some of the other girls in the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy high school choir swear to me that the Passover music they will be performing later that night at th ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Miriam Shaviv -
The Unbreakable Soul of Passov
by Sam GlaserThis Rosh Chodesh Nissan I had the pleasure of culminating my eight-day tour of Florida with a Shabbaton in Cooper City, just north of Miami. Just before launching int ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Sam Glaser -
Counting the Omer (Hebrew)
הִנְנִי מוכָן ומְזֻמָן לְקַיֵם מִצְוַת עֲשֵה שֶל סְפִירַת הָעֹמֶר . בָרוךְ אַתָה ייָ אֱלֹהֵינו מֶלֶךְ העֹולָם אֲשֶר קִדְשָנו ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Sara Smith -
At this link is sheet music for a new melody for "Ki Lo Na'eh" ("כי לו נאה," translated here as "For to God it is Fitting").(At this link is the sheet music with option ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Jonah Rank
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An Aramean Destroyed My Father
One of the most difficult texts in the Haggadah is "arami oved avi." This verse from Deuteronomy 26:5, translated as "my father was a wandering Aramean," is part of the formula that was recited when the first fruit offerings were ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by MyJewishLearning.com -
Five Rabbis
Five rabbis, living under the Roman oppression in the second century, gather for a Seder and lose track of the time, until reminded by their students that dawn has come. Some scholars suggest that they used this Seder, with its th ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by VBS -
Bnei Brak
It happened that Rabbis Eliezer, Joshua, Elazar ben Azaryah, Akiva and Tarfon were reclining at the seder table in Bnei Brak. They spent the whole night discussing the Exodus until their students came and said to them: “Rabbis, ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Michael Stock -
Passover Torah Teaching
By Rabbi Alana Suskin During the Passover season, we revisit the story of how the people of Israel, in a reversal of humans searching for the Divine, are pursued and rescued by God. During the process, what has been a family and a ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Be'chol Lashon -
Counting the Omer
The omer refers to the forty-nine day period between the second night of Passover (Pesach) and the holiday of Shavuot. This period marks the beginning of the barley harvest when, in ancient times, Jews would bring the fi ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by MyJewishLearning.com -
Requirements of Eating Matzah
The holiday of Passover has a complex set of rules regarding what may be eaten. Since one is obliged to eat matzah on Passover, it is no surprise that much has been written about matzah, not only when to eat, it but how much must ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by MyJewishLearning.com
