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Passover 5765 - April 23, 2005
The Nile Syndrome
I made myself? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Why would a smart guy come out with a ridiculous statement like, "I made myself"?
I made myself? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Why would a smart guy come out with a ridiculous statement like, "I made myself"?
Divine Madness
There is a certain madness to this idea of talking to G‑d, of saying “You” to the Ground of Reality.... Like the madness of love or of unbounded joy
There is a certain madness to this idea of talking to G‑d, of saying “You” to the Ground of Reality.... Like the madness of love or of unbounded joy
Story
The Feast
First we drank a glass of wine. Then we ate a bit of parsley. Then they started talking, and talking, and talking. The smell of the food from the kitchen is making me insane, but they don't bring it out!
First we drank a glass of wine. Then we ate a bit of parsley. Then they started talking, and talking, and talking. The smell of the food from the kitchen is making me insane, but they don't bring it out!
Passover (Pesach) 2026
Click through an interactive Seder Plate and a 15-step Seder wizard... Gain knowledge of the history and the laws, be inspired by the kabbalah... Buy shemurah matzah and sell your chametz...
Click through an interactive Seder Plate and a 15-step Seder wizard... Gain knowledge of the history and the laws, be inspired by the kabbalah... Buy shemurah matzah and sell your chametz...
Seven Passover Stories
Barrels on a Riverbank... Shmerl's Seder... The Three Visits of Elijah the Prophet... Alvin and the Afikoman... Shemurah... Freedom... Four Boxes of Matzah...
Barrels on a Riverbank... Shmerl's Seder... The Three Visits of Elijah the Prophet... Alvin and the Afikoman... Shemurah... Freedom... Four Boxes of Matzah...
History of Passover
Five Chabad.org writers and contributors--Bella Schapiro, Illana Attia, Tzvi Freeman, Yanki Tauber and Naftali Silverberg--share their insights, musings and epiphanies
Five Chabad.org writers and contributors--Bella Schapiro, Illana Attia, Tzvi Freeman, Yanki Tauber and Naftali Silverberg--share their insights, musings and epiphanies
Foods that Tell
The Shankbone representing the leap to boundlessness... the Egg bespeaking the joy of Jewish time... the Bitter Herbs embodying the bitterness of slavery and the empowerment born of discontent...
The Shankbone representing the leap to boundlessness... the Egg bespeaking the joy of Jewish time... the Bitter Herbs embodying the bitterness of slavery and the empowerment born of discontent...
The Rebbe
The Rebbe: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
On the occassion of 103nd anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's birth: a biography of ideas... a selection of essays based on the Rebbe's talks... Contemporary Chassidic Stories of the Rebbe… twenty-two first person accounts...
On the occassion of 103nd anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's birth: a biography of ideas... a selection of essays based on the Rebbe's talks... Contemporary Chassidic Stories of the Rebbe… twenty-two first person accounts...
Parshah
Acharei Mot in a Nutshell
Laws about sacrifices and about entry into the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle. Also, the annual two-goat lottery, and the prohibition against ingesting blood.
Laws about sacrifices and about entry into the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle. Also, the annual two-goat lottery, and the prohibition against ingesting blood.
Summary of the Passover Torah Readings
Out of Egypt... the Paschal Lamb... to see and to be seen... appointments in time... leaven and matzah... the Song at the Sea... a Messianic prophecy... a synopsis of the Torah readings for the first, intermediate and closing days of Passover
Out of Egypt... the Paschal Lamb... to see and to be seen... appointments in time... leaven and matzah... the Song at the Sea... a Messianic prophecy... a synopsis of the Torah readings for the first, intermediate and closing days of Passover
He took us out from slavery to freedom, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to festivity, from deep darkness to great light, and from bondage to redemption
— The Haggadah
Print Magazine
All of Jewish philosophy is but an attempt to fit inside the human mind that which is contained within the heart of a simple Jew.
It will never fit.
But you must learn, contemplate, and ponder with your mind, nevertheless. Perhaps, once aware of its inadequacy, your mind will awaken the heart from its slumber.
Hayo...
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