Pesach

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Pesach: Looking Forward

Rabbi Jay Kelman

There is something most beautiful about a holiday that celebrates our past being focused on future, on our children. Pesach marks the founding of our people, and it is the story of our past that we retell at our seder. “We begin with shame and end…

Article

Apr 9, 2015

Beyond Redemption? Rethinking the Wicked Son

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Class

Apr 6, 2015

Pesach: Pass the Karpas

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"Therefore, in every generation, one must see themselves as if they have left Egypt”. All too often, we can only fully appreciate what we have when it is missing. Freedom is so much sweeter for those who have experienced slavery. And on seder night…

Article

Apr 3, 2015

Beyond Redemption?

Dr. Elliott Malamet

The basic mitzvah of any Yom Tov—and Pesach is the first of the Yamim Tovim—is simcha, to rejoice. One must look forward to Yom Tov with great joy, anticipation and happiness. So much so, that our rabbis forbade eulogies for 30 days…

Program

Mar 15, 2015

Pesach: A Long Short Story

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And it was at the end of four hundred and thirty years, in the middle of that very day, that the legions of G-d went out from the land of Egypt” (Shemot 12:41). After 430 years, does it really matter what day and what time of the day we left Egypt…

Article

Apr 14, 2014