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Redeeming the Wicked Child of Passover
The festival of Passover was not far off. Households bustled happily from morning till evening with cleaning and shopping.
On the night of Passover, the Ari taught, you must enter your home for the Seder with great joy.
On this night, all the portals of heaven are opened. On this night, G‑d pours down His deepest love upon every Jew. On this night, we were liberated at midnight.
On this night, expect wonder.
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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to G‑d. Do not do any work: neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your animal, nor your sojourner who is in your cities. For in six days G‑d made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore G‑d blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
– Exodus 20:8–11 (fourth of the Ten Commandments)
"Covenant Between the Parts"
(1743 BCE)
On the 15th of Nissan of the year 2018 from creation (1743 BCE) G-d forged a special covenant with... Read More »
Abraham Battles Four Kings
(1738 BCE?)
When Lot was taken captive by the four kings who conquered the "five cities of the plain" (Sodom... Read More »
Angels Visit Abraham
(1714 BCE)
On the 3rd day following his circumcision at age 99
(see "Today in Jewish History" for Nissan 13)... Read More »
Isaac Born
(1713 BCE)
"G-d remembered Sarah as He had said; and G-d did to Sarah as He had spoken.
And Sarah conceived, and... Read More »
Jacob Wrestles with Esau's Angel
(1556 BCE)
"And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the
break of dawn. When he saw that he... Read More »
Moses at Burning Bush
(1314 BCE)
On the 15th of Nissan of the year 2447 from creation (1314 BCE) -- exactly one year before the Exodus... Read More »
The Exodus
(1313 BCE)
At the stroke of midnight of Nissan 15 of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE),
210 years after... Read More »
Queen Vashti Executed
(366 BCE)
On the seventh day of his royal feast (see Jewish history for 9 Nissan), King Achashverosh demanded... Read More »
Daniel in Lions' Den
(372 BCE)
Daniel was cast into a den of hungry lions by Darius I of Persia for violating a royal edict that no... Read More »
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"And you shall count for yourselves from
the morrow of the Shabbat, from the day on which you bring... Read More »
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