admin | April 8, 2020
Rabbi Eli Stefansky, who leads a worldwide daily lesson in Talmud, observed Wednesday that this year marks the first time in history that Passover has been celebrated in discrete families save for the very first Passover, in Egypt, in the Exodus.
admin | April 8, 2020
On the Jewish holiday of Passover, tradition holds that the youngest child present at the table asks the question, Why is this night different from all other nights? This particular Passover, smack in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, will undoubtedly be different from all other holidays that friends and families have celebrated in the past.
admin | April 8, 2020
Ive been in an apartment on a quiet Jerusalem street for the past couple of weeks. Last week I spent Shabbat alone for the first time.
admin | April 8, 2020
During Pesach we recite the plagues in which many Egyptians died and sing Shirat HaYam, detailing the horrific drowning of the pursuing army, as the Israelites celebrate that horse and rider are thrown into the sea.
admin | April 7, 2020
Famed worldwide as a giant of Torah learningwhose prowess as a Talmudist was matched by the depth with which he studied andapplied the teachings of Chabad, Rabbi Yisroel Friedman was not only filledwith Torah knowledge, but also with love for the Torah and with unboundeddedication to Gd, the giver of the Torah.
admin | April 7, 2020
(JTA) Just before his synagogue in Chicagos West Rogers Park shut down in response to the current pandemic, Yerachmiel Rick Beilis made a siyum, a festive meal celebrating his completion of a tractate of Talmud. Only weeks later, he was dead, struck down by the coronavirus. Beilis, a high-tech worker who died April 4 at the age of 52, leaving behind four children and a wife who is herself battling the coronavirus, was a pillar in my shul, said Rabbi Efraim Aaron Twerski, leader of Congregation Khal Chasidim, in a video message on crowdfunding website The Chesed Fund.
admin | April 7, 2020
The Hebrew word Pesach connoteshovering in a protective way,much as a mother bird might hover over her nest,protecting her offspring. The common translation of Pesach as Passover comes from an erroneous rendering by 16th-century English translator William Tyndale
admin | April 7, 2020
My mother teaches a classroom of 2-year-olds at a Jewish day school in Houston, Tex. Ever since the novel coronavirus hit and school turned virtual, shes been sending YouTube videos to her yeladim.
admin | April 7, 2020
Many people, far too many, expect to be alone on the first night of Passover this year. Moms. Dads
admin | April 7, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press We continue exploring the difference between shirah and zimrah. Rabbi Eliemelech of Lizhensk (to Genesis 47:28 and Exodus 19:1) writes that zimrah denotes cutting away (zomer) outer distractions that impede a persons ability to properly serve G-d. Both he and the Chasam Sofer explain that Pesukei deZimra in the morning are meant to cut down the spiritual klipot (husks) as we prepare for complete rapture with G-d
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