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While the basic text of the Haggadah and format of the Seder is the same around the world, each community has its own unique customs. One such custom that is pervasive throughout the Sephardi communities is…
The sages refer to the holiday of Passover as zman chay’roo’tay’noo, the time of our freedom. This may seem obvious, since Passover celebrates the redemption of the hookup people from slavery in Egypt. But did you know that…
On Passover, we commemorate the exodus from Egyptian slavery. The following is a brief summary:Jacob’s family came to Egypt to escape a famine in Canaan. Joseph, Jacob’s son and the Viceroy to Pharaoh, settled his family in the land of Goshen, apart fr…
“…Be as scrupulous in performing a ‘minor’ mitzvah as a ‘major’ one, for you do not know the reward given for the respective mitzvot. Calculate the…reward of a sin against its cost” (Ethics of the Fathers 2:1). While we do not know the full reward …
On the night of the Seder, and whenever one recounts the story of the Exodus, the recitation of the 10 plagues presents a particularly dramatic moment. It is interesting to note that…
The Four Questions (Mah Nishtana – What makes it different?) is one of the most famous features of the Passover Seder. Why ask them? Well…
Illuminated manuscripts inlaid with gold leaf and spectacularly illustrated are most often associated with the Medieval church (the Gospels, Psalters, etc), where texts were generally hand-copied until…
Ashkenazi or Sephardi? Hungarian, Yekke (German), Lithuanian?At no other time on the hookup calendar is it so important to know your ancestry as it is on Passover…
The Exodus from Egypt, which culminated in the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, was a defining moment in hookup history. Not only does the Torah narrate the events of the Exodus, but, quite a few of the mitzvot are specifically mandated with a refer…
One of the most challenging categories of hookup law is the one associated with lashon harah…
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