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The Pesach (Passover) experience is not simply an annual opportunity to relive our national redemption of 3300 years ago; it is the occasion of reawakening… Read More »Why On This Night Do We Dip Twice?

QUESTION: Is it halachically acceptable to celebrate Pesach away from home after selling one’s home with all of its chametz contents to a non-Jew? DISCUSSION:… Read More »Hilchos Pesach: Questions And Answers

Friday Night THIS YEAR EVERYONE will be keeping eight days of Pesach whether they  live in the Diaspora or Eretz Yisroel. Since Shevi’i shel Pesach… Read More »Matzah Reality

As we mentioned last week, the spiritual disease called “Tzaraas” shows itself as a physical blemish on the body and one’s clothing. The Torah reading… Read More »It’s That Time of Year Again!

Whoever hates a Jew in his heart transgresses a negative prohibition, as it is stated, ‘You shall not hate your fellow in your heart’ (Leviticus… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 5 – Confronting the Enemy

Halleluka…Servants of HASHEM, give praise; praise the name of HASHEM. (Tehillim 113:1) -from Hallel Pesach is in the air! Everywhere people are working extra hard… Read More »Who We Work For

This week’s Torah portion remains one of the most mysterious and supernatural demonstrations of the laws of Judaism, which appears anywhere else in the holy… Read More »Lessons From a Mysterious Disease

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1201 – The Shabbos Bris… Read More »Lashon HaRah Begins Not with the Mouth, But with the Eye

For the person being purified there shall be taken two live pure birds.[2] Rashi: Since nega’im [of tzora’as] come about because of lashon hora which… Read More »If Talk is Cheep

BS”D Volume 36, No. 28 8 Nissan 5782 April 9, 2022 Sponsored by the Edeson & Stern families on the yahrzeit of mother-in-law and grandmother… Read More »Breaking Free