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| The Kabbalah of the Seder Plate
There are many ways to tell a story. The obvious way is with words. Yet there is another, non-verbal, method of telling the same story. The items of food on the Seder table tell their story too, for they are not only things to be eaten. | |
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| A Full Page On Half a Story
On Passover night we begin the Seder by breaking the middle Matzah. This important symbol, called “Yachatz,” precedes the saying of the Hagaddah. Half of this Matzah is hidden for the Afikoman, which is then eaten at the end of the Seder. | |
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| Telling Stories
By Yanki Tauber
Once upon a time, many years ago when we were little, we knew the importance
of the story | |
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| Matzah After Midnight
By Yanki Tauber
First you had faith. Then you grew up. Then you discovered truths you always knew you knew but which your knowledge obscured. That's why we have pre-midnight matzah and post midnight matzah | |
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| Are You Completely Lost at the Seder Table?
By Naftali Silberberg
If you feel lost at the seder table, that is exactly why you are there... | |
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| Hillel's Paradox
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
"If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?" The laws of the Passover Offering contain an important insight into the eternal question, conflict and symbiosis of self and community | |
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| Passover: A Matter of Taste?
By Naftali Silberberg
The seder's menu features many different foods. The taste of each entry on the menu alludes to a path to redemption. | |
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| The Fifth Cup
Why pour a cup if we lack the ability to drink it? In the course of the Passover Seder we drink four cups of wine, corresponding to the four "expressions of redemption" in the Divine declaration (Exodus 6:2-8). | |
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| The Third Seder
By Yanki Tauber
Memory is a victory over time; but to truly free ourselves of time's tyranny requires the ability to not only relive the past, but also remember the future | |
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| A Youthful Holiday
By Naftali Silberberg
While the importance of transmitting the message of Passover to our children is self-understood, why is Passover's message deemed more important for the children than the messages carried by other festivals? | |
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