Bedikas Chametz: Search and Destroy — By Ben
Jews around the world are scrambling to get ready for Pesach, the most stressful of all the Jewish holidays. For the uninitiated, Passover (as the holiday is also known) is […]
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Pesach – Seder in Solitude — By Ben
This Passover I am planning to do the seder all by myself in my studio apartment. For the last few years I’ve been fortunate enough to be hosted by families […]
Pesach: 4 Drinks Deep – By Ben
Passover has its staples. Eating matzah, telling over the story, kids selling back the afikomen, wondering When Do We Eat? But one tradition may just be more essential (and more […]
Pesach: Dayenu – Would It Really Have Been Enough? — By Ben
As Pesach approaches we find ourselves in a furious rush. Between cooking, cleaning, switching out dish ware, finishing work before the two days of Yom Tov, and collecting all chometz […]
Pesach – It’s Not Darkest Before Just the Dawn — By Ben
We have a lot of maxims in our culture that simply aren’t true. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over, expecting different result. No volume of the […]
Hod. The Link between Pesach Sheni, Lag B’Omer, and Manna from Heaven. – By Ben
We’re in a really odd time right now in the Jewish calendar. Between Pesach and Shavuos is a what’s known as the counting of the Omer. For 49 days we count each […]
Pesach – So We Left Egypt. Who Cares? — By Ben
As we prepare to celebrate Pesach, we once again return to the story of how God took our ancestors out of Egypt. We’ll do the two seders, abstain from chometz, […]
A Leader and One Who Leads — By Ben
We’ve all had “test of faith” moments (or in Jew-speak test of emmunah.) And in this week’s parsha, Beshalach, the Jews have a pretty daunting one. Just after leaving Egypt, God instructs Moses […]
Rosh Chodesh and New Beginnings — By Ben
Parshas Bo has a ton going on. It finishes up the plagues (most notably the death of the first born), the Jews are given their freedom finally becoming a nation, and […]
Pesach: A Kid, a Kid. And All of Jewish History. – By Ben
Growing up my family certainly never did a “full” seder. But we did the essentials. Brisket, charoset, afikomen bargaining, and the Chad Gadya song. You know, the one that goes […]
