Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
While it’s usually the Passover Seders that get the most attention, the rest of the eight-day holiday is special too and the last day certainly packs a punch!
Abraham was free. He heard the divine symphony and danced to its tune, unfettered by the chains of time and space.
We, too, can dance to the same song. Not because our limbs resonate with the heavens. But because we were handed the score at Sinai and connected to its Composer.
And so, at any moment, any of us can l...
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In today’s episode of Your Jewish Week: fortuitous bombs, an all-nighter, and goofy group responses.
In many Jewish communities—both Ashkenazi and Sephardic—there’s a beautiful tradition of staying up late (or even all night) on Shevi’i shel Pesach.
A person learns most of his wisdom at night
– Maimonides
Isaac Circumcised
(1713 BCE)
Eight days following his birth on the 15th of Nissan (see Jewish history for that day), Isaac was circ... Read More »
Encirclement of Jericho Begun
(1273 BCE)
Shortly after crossing the Jordan River and entering the Land of Canaan, the Jews set their sights on... Read More »
Poway Chabad Shooting
(2019)
A gunman walked into a Chabad-Lubavitch center outside San Diego during services on the last day of Pa... Read More »
On the Eighth Day of Passover we read Deuteronomy 15:19-16:17. Like the reading for the second day, it... Read More »
Yizkor, the remembrance prayer for departed parents, is recited today after the morning reading of the... Read More »
The last day of Passover ("Acharon Shel Pesach") is particularly
associated with Moshiach and the futu... Read More »
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