As the 80% were dying and being buried, 20% were plotting a map to vast treasures they would plunder. If a slave has the chance to amass a fortune and be led out of captivity by G-d Himself, why would anyone not want to be a part of it? * At least the Defiant Son is at the table. In some respect, he wants to be convinced…
Chazal tell us that the days of Chol Hamoed were given to us primarily to enable us to spend additional time learning Torah, as well as rejoicing and eating special Yom Tov meals.
Matzah was traditionally always made meticulously by people, with extreme care to keep clean, and so to ensure the finest kosher matzos.
QUESTION > Dear Rabbi! I really love sushi and other rice products and every Pesach I have this problem: I am Ashkenazic and can’t eat kitniyos. If it were something that everyone was prohibited from, I would be fine, I also like pizza, and I manage. What bothers me is that Sephardic Jews are allowed to eat kitniyos, so why is it my fault that my rabbis, 1000 years ago, decided to prohibit it? Why could my Sephardic neighbor eat rice and I can’t? Can’t all the rabbis get together and decide if it’s chametz or not? Sarah
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson and Rabbi Moshe Lieberman were asked, long ago, to travel to Japan to lead a seder for the Jews there.
April 18, 2019