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These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…
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Question 5: What blessing should one recite over coffee and tea, and is there any problem with drinking them on Passover?
Response: I will answer the questions in order. Regarding the blessing, it has…
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Johann Adam Boller, Jacob Reischer
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1719
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And now I will reveal to you why we call the Sabbath before Passover “the Great Sabbath.”
Know that the minister of Egypt is Aries [the ram], and Scorpio, which is with Aries, and its angel is Samael…
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Solomon Molkho, Solomon Molkho
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Salonika, Kingdom of Italy
(Italy)
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First Quarter of the 16th Century
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בָּרוּךְ הַמָּקוֹם בָּרוּךְ הוּא. בָּרוּךְ שֶׁנָּתָן תּוֹרָה לְעַמּוֹ יִשְׂרָאֵל. בָּרוּךְ.הוּא: כְּנֶגֶד אַרְבָּעָה בָנִים דִּבְּרָה תוֹרָה. אֶחָד חָכָם. וְאֶחָד רָשָׁעוְאֶחָד תָּם. וְאֶחָד שֶׁאֵינוֹ יוֹדֵֽעַ לִשְׁאוֹל…
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Herbert Bronstein, Leonard Baskin
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Chicago, United States of America
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1974
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Rosie thought about father—a repressed anxiety that never disappeared altogether and lingered as a dark shadow behind a light and joyful life, like the pale backdrop to a colorful stage—but she did…
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Carry van Bruggen
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1910
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One of the more bitter days of my life that I will never ever forget is the 17th Adar 5677 [11 March 1917] at dawn when I was already being sought [the authorities had already dogged my footsteps and…
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Ḥayim Naḥmias
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(Türkiye, Turkey)
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1918
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
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Menachem Birnbaum
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1920
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From movies to civil-rights movements, the Exodus stands at the center of Western thought and culture. You will still be surprised by what is, and what isn’t, in the account.
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To Section I, which deals with the Haggadah itself, I have added six other sections.
Section II, entitled “Moses, our Teacher,” is a collation of midrashim, which discuss his attributes…
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Menachem M. Kasher
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1948
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“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
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Leopold Weisel
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Prague, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1847