Category: pesach
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A Plague of Frogs
This item was posted yesterday on a New Zealand news website. It seems that the city of New Plymouth is suffering from a plague of frogs now. Large numbers of the green and brown croakers have been seen sunning and bathing themselves in backyards from Spotswood to Bell Block after a bumper breeding season. Neighbours… Read more
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Mehadrin Matzot
Are matzot still considered mehadrin if they are stolen? Or more specifically, are matzot considered mehadrin (or even kosher) if the tax man is cheated out of his 16% VAT (Sales Tax for Americans)? I ordered some matzot this year from a different place than usual (for various reasons). I was told that I could… Read more
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A more meaningful bedikat chametz
I had been meaning to write a final follow up to the kitten saga, with my ‘Jerry Springer’ thoughts on the matter. Perhaps I’ll get a chance at some point. But right now I’ve discovered how to make bedikat chametz so much more meaningful – you can read what I wrote over here: www.torahlab.org/thestorysofar.phpCheck it… Read more
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Along came the cat …
… and ate the kid. It is a week before Pesach. We still have hardly started our Pesach cleaning. My wife is due to give birth some time in the next couple of weeks – and my 11 year old son came home today with two kittens less than a day old!!! Their mother abandoned… Read more
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Amazing Pesach facts
I was trying to work out what Pesach would have been like in Egypt in that first year. I haven’t even got to any of the technical details yet, but just working out how many people there would have been in each house astounded me. Remember that the korban Pesach had to be eaten entirely… Read more
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Hagadah of Pesach
I gave a shiur a couple of days ago at Midreshet Rachel about the Mitzvah of ‘sipur yetziat mitzraim’. This is the mitzah of speaking about the exodus from Egypt on the night(s) of seder. I discussed the differences between this mitzvah and the twice daily mitzvah of remembering the exodus. We go through the… Read more