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| The Matzot and Four Cups of Wine
Complete liberation from Egypt required that the newborn nation rid itself of Egyptian impurity | |
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| Believers and Sons of Believers
Did Moshe question G-d's actions? | |
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| Sanctifying Time
The holy obligation of time management | |
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| Season of our Freedom
The festival of matzot invokes the true freedom of each and every Jew in all times and places | |
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| Remembering the Exodus and the Shabbat
Why must we remember the Exodus the way we remember the Shabbat? | |
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| The First and Final Redemption
The last day of Passover, known as Acharon Shel Pesach, concludes the theme of liberation and redemption from exile | |
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| Vaulting, Bounding and Leaping
Little-known insights about Passover | |
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| The Two Faces of A Mitzvah
Generally speaking, the commandments are divided fnto two categories: supra rational "decrees" (chukkim) and logical "judgments" (mishpatim). | |
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| Passovering Time
True freedom is freedom from limitation - whether external or internal, whether physical, psychological or spiritual. Mitzrayim, the Hebrew word for "Egypt," means "boundaries" and "constrictions"; yetziat mitzrayim, "going out of Egypt," is the endeavor to transcend limitation, to rise above all that inhibits the soul of man. | |
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| The Vegetarian Era
On Passover we were freed from the taskmaster's whip and set on the road to becoming a people sovereign in their land. But the Exodus was more than a transition from slavery to independence: it was a liberation from the confines of the corporeal to the infinite expanses of spirit. | |
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| Inflation
A mitzvah is a commandment - G-d instructing man what He desires for man to do or not do. Understandably, then, virtually all of the Torah's 613 mitzvot are unilateral declarations of divine will | |
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| An Exception and its Exception
Those who offer the korban Pesach on the 14th of Iyar follow the same basic procedure as those who brought it one month earlier, on the First Passover. There are, however, several legal and procedural distinctions between the two Passovers, the most important of which concerns the prohibition against leaven. | |
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| The Four Factions
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Midrash tells us that when the Children of Israel were trapped on the shore of the Red Sea, they divided into four camps: one proposed to throw themselves into the sea, a second advocated return to Egypt, a third wanted war, a fourth prayer. The Rebbe explains these four approaches to dealing with the world--and the significance of the fifth option commanded to Moses | |
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