What if this Pesakh We recall precarity Versus redemption? – Jen Van Meter This year Shabbat occurs on the seventh day of Pesakh. The Torah story assigned to this day recalls the most uncertain time of all in the course of our ancestors’ redemption. First, HaShem leads us on a deliberately circuitous route to avoidContinue reading “Shabbat Pesakh 5785: Uncertainty”
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Pre Pesakh Primer: All Things Hametz
שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻלּוֹ מַצָּה. On all other nights we eat hametz and matzah, tonight only matzah. (Mishnah Pesakhim 10.4) Happy new year! The Jewish month of Nissan began on Saturday evening, and with it, the calendar year of our people. The first of three harvest festivals is only twoContinue reading “Pre Pesakh Primer: All Things Hametz”
Torah for the 21st Century by Rabbi Ariel Stone 