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I. Maot Chitim II. Ta'anit Bechorim, Fast of the Firstborns III. Chametz
To The Brandeis Community, Many of us have fond memories of preparing for the holiday of Pesach (Passover), and our family's celebration of the holiday. Below is a basic outline of the major halakhic issues for Pesach this year. If anyone has questions they should be in touch with me at h[email protected]. In addition to these guidelines, a number of resources are available online from the major kashrut agencies: ● Orthodox Union: http://oukosher.org/passover/ ○ a pdf of the glossy magazine that’s been seen around campus can be found here ● Chicago Rabbinical Council: link ● Star-K: link Best wishes for a Chag Kasher ve-Sameach, Rabbi David, Ariel, Havivi, and Tiffy Pardo Please note: Since we are all spending Pesach all over the world (literally...I’m selling your chametz for you, I know) please use the internet to get appropriate halakhic times. I recommend m yzmanim.com or the really nifty sidebar on https://oukosher.org/passover/ I. Maot Chitim The Rema (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 429) records the ancient custom of ma'ot chitim – providing money for poor people to buy matzah and other supplies for Pesach. A number of tzedka organizations have special Maot Chitim drives. II. Ta’anit Bechorim, Fast of the Firstborns Erev Pesach is the fast of the firstborns, to commemorate the fact that the Jewish firstborns were spared during m akat bechorot (the slaying of the firstborns). This year the fast is observed on Friday April 3 (14 Nissan) beginning at alot hashachar (i.e. -
EREV PESACH WHICH OCCURS on SHABBOS: a Practical Guide
Rabbi Aaron Kraft Dayan EREV PESACH WHICH OCCURS ON SHABBOS: A Practical Guide When Erev Pesach coincides with Shabbos, we benefit from Friday (13th of Nisan; this year, March 26, 2021) or Shabbos having a restful and spiritually uplifting day leading into the (Erev Pesach; this year, March 27, 2021)? The Shulchan Aruch Seder night. However, this infrequent calendrical occurrence (ibid.) says to burn most of the chametz on Friday, leaving some also raises practical questions relating to the halachos of Erev for the Shabbos meals (see next section). Whatever chametz Pesach1 as well as to the proper fulfilment of the mitzvos of remains after the meals should be broken into small crumbs Shabbos. This article will address these concerns. and disposed of in a manner that destroys it completely but does not violate the laws of Shabbos. Preferred methods include flushing the crumbs down the toilet, feeding them to TAANIS BECHOROS a pet, or throwing them into a garbage outside of the house. While on a regular Erev Pesach, firstborn males customarily Larger quantities may also be given to a non-Jew (but you fast, fasting is prohibited on Shabbos either because it detracts should not directly ask the non-Jew to remove more than from the mitzvah of oneg Shabbos or because an obligation to a meal’s worth of chametz from your house – see Shulchan eat three meals exists (OC 288:1 and Beur Halacha). Therefore, Aruch 444:4 and Mishna Berura 444:18-20). the Beis Yosef (OC 470) cites opposing positions whether to According to the Shulchan Aruch (OC 444:2), the burning observe the taanis on Thursday or not at all this year. -
Rewriting the Haggadah: Judaism for Those Who Hold Food Close
Bard College Bard Digital Commons Senior Projects Spring 2020 Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects Spring 2020 Rewriting the Haggadah: Judaism for Those Who Hold Food Close Rose Noël Wax Bard College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2020 Part of the Food Studies Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Wax, Rose Noël, "Rewriting the Haggadah: Judaism for Those Who Hold Food Close" (2020). Senior Projects Spring 2020. 176. https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2020/176 This Open Access work is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been provided to you by Bard College's Stevenson Library with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this work in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights- holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Rewriting the Haggadah: Judaism for Those Who Hold Food Close Senior Project Submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College by Rose Noël Wax Annandale-on-Hudson, New York May 2020 Acknowledgements Thank you to my parents for teaching me to be strong in my convictions. Thank you to all of the grandparents and great-grandparents I never knew for forging new identities in a country entirely foreign to them. -
Literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture1
Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture1 Katrin Kogman-Appel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva The thirteenth century saw a new type of Hebrew book, the Passover haggadah (pl. haggadot). Bound together with the general prayer book in the earlier Middle Ages, the haggadah emerged as a separate, independent volume around that time.2 Once the haggadah was born as an individual book, a considerable number of illustrated specimens were created, of which several have come down to us. Dated to the period from approximately 1280 to 1500, these books were produced in various regions of the Iberian peninsula and southern France (Sepharad), the German lands (Ashkenaz), France, and northern Italy. Almost none of these manuscripts contain a colophon, and in most cases it is not known who commissioned them. No illustrated haggadah from the Islamic realm exists, since there the decoration of books normally followed the norms of Islamic culture, where sacred books received only ornamental embellishments. The haggadah is usually a small, thin, handy volume and contains the liturgical text to be recited during the seder, the privately held family ceremony taking place at the eve of Passover. The central theme of the holiday is the retelling of the story of Israel’s departure from Egypt; the precept is to teach it to one’s offspring.3 The haggadah contains the text to fulfill this precept. Hence this is not simply a collection of prayers to accompany a ritual meal; rather, using the 1 book and reading its entire text is the essence of the Passover holiday. -
Hundreds of Thousands Celebrate 13Th Siyum Hashas
Hundreds of Thousands Celebrate 13th Siyum HaShas January 2, 2020 The 13th Global Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi was held on Wednesday, January 1, with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. The Siyum HaShas – literally “the completion of the Six Orders [of the Talmud]” – is the celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi program, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning one folio page of the Talmud daily, with 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud being covered in sequence. The idea of Jews all across the world studying the same page of Talmud each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was presented at the First World Congress of Agudath Israel in Vienna on August 16, 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro. His idea was greeted enthusiastically, including by many Jewish leaders in Europe and America, and the first cycle of Daf Yomi began on the first day of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah that year, September 11, 1923. Ever since then, Jews participating in the program cover one page a day, studying the text by themselves, with a group, or by listening to a lecture. A typical daily Daf Yomi lecture takes one hour. Daf Yomi unifies the Jewish people, allowing Jews across the world and from any background to study the very same text each day, providing a commonality of purpose and injecting Jewish pride in its adherents. The Talmud is written largely in Aramaic, and thus a translation of the Talmud, specifically the popular ArtScroll Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, an English-language and Hebrew-language translation and elucidation, has been credited with significantly increasing the number of participants in the Daf Yomi program. -
Haggadah SUPPLEMENT
Haggadah SUPPLEMENT Historical Legal Textual Seder Ritualistic Cultural Artistic [email protected] • [email protected] Seder 1) Joseph Tabory, PhD, JPS Haggadah 2 cups of wine before the meal ; 2 cups of wine after the meal (with texts read over each pair); Hallel on 2nd cup, immediately before meal; more Hallel on 4th cup, immediately after meal; Ha Lachma Anya – wish for Jerusalem in Aramaic - opens the seder; L’Shana HaBa’ah BiYerushalyaim – wish for Jerusalem in Hebrew - closes it; Aramaic passage (Ha Lachma Anya) opens the evening; Aramaic passage (Had Gadya) closes the evening; 4 questions at the beginning of the seder; 13 questions at the end (Ehad Mi Yode‘a); Two litanies in the haggadah: the Dayenu before the meal and Hodu after the meal. 2) Joshua Kulp, PhD, The Origins of the Seder and Haggadah, 2005, p2 Three main forces stimulated the rabbis to develop innovative seder ritual and to generate new, relevant exegeses to the biblical Passover texts: (1) the twin calamities of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and the Bar-Kokhba revolt; (2) competition with emerging Christian groups; (3) assimilation of Greco-Roman customs and manners. 2nd Seder 3) David Galenson, PhD, Old Masters and Young Geniuses There have been two very different types of artist in the modern era…I call one of these methods aesthetically motivated experimentation, and the other conceptual execution. Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise… means that these artists rarely feel they have succeeded, and their careers are consequently often dominated by the pursuit of a single objective. -
The Jewish People
Preface AT THE PROSPECT OF PUBLICATION of this, my first book, my heart is filled with joy and gratitude. I have been sustained and nurtured by other people and have been shaped by their models, influence, and help. This book, in particular, reflects the ongoing impact of others on me. I would like in this small way to acknowledge my debt of grati tude to them. This book bears the imprint of two people, above all. One is Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the master philosopher/poet of halacha (Jewish law) of our time. Even with the perspective of thirty-five years, it is hard to overstate the electrifying impact on me of the initial encounter with Rabbi Soloveitchik's model and mode of thinking. I was twenty years old, emotionally open and intellectually absorbent, on my maiden flight out of the warm, loving cocoon of the East European refugee yeshiva in which I had studied and been ordained. I had been raised to study and observe all the traditions and rules of halacha; Rabbi Soloveitchik opened my eyes to the patterns of meaning therein. In his analysis the halacha became more than the sum of its thousands of observances and details. It was a system by which to live humanly, a way to seize life whole, a confrontation with the dilemmas and anx ieties of existence. The details were the products of divine revelation and an ongoing historic confrontation, love affair, and partnership be- 7 8 PREFACE tween God and the Jewish people. Under the light of his illumination, every detail—even those that appeared obscure or mechanical— turned out to be an articulation of a psychological or moral state or an attempt to induce the individual to give deeply human responses to life situations. -
Orthodox by Design
one Authoritative and Accessible the year 2005 was a big one for ArtScroll. It marked the completion of the seventy- third and final volume of their Talmud Bavli: The Schotten- stein Edition, a massive work of thirty- five thousand pages, involving over eighty rabbinic scholars for more than fifteen years, at a blistering produc- tion rate of one volume every nine weeks.1 No other publication has more definitively signaled ArtScroll’s ascent in the publishing world. Several other ArtScroll books have had a dramatic impact on the English- language Jewish public sphere, such as The Complete ArtScroll Siddur (their basic prayer book) and even their best- selling cookbook, Kosher by Design.2 But ArtScroll’s Talmud is unique in terms of the intellectual, symbolic, and financial resources at stake for a project of this magnitude, as well as its impact on the relationship of the publisher with its patrons, customers, critics, and even competing publishers.3 Let us recall here the status of the Babylonian Talmud as arguably the central text of Rabbinic Judaism. It consists of the written record of what is known in Jewish tradition as the Torah she be’al peh (the Oral Law), orig- inally transmitted to Moses on Mt. Sinai alongside the Torah she bi khtav (the Written Torah, i.e., the Hebrew Bible), and systematized by a long tradition of authoritative commentators.4 More than any other text in the Jewish tradition, it symbolizes the shift in ancient Israelite religion from a temple cult or ga nized around sacrificial practices to the religion of a 30 “people of the book,” living in diaspora, in the aftermath of the destruc- tion of the Temple at Jerusalem. -
Yeshiva Ohr Reuven
REUVEN YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF YESHIVA KETANA OHR REUVEN Vol.REVIEW 8 Issue #31 June 4th, 2021 8:07 PM `"tyz oeiq dk gly zyxt UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday, June, 6, 2021 Pre1-A Siddur Play Thursday, June, 10, 2021 6,7 & 8 Minyan Trip Sunday, June, 13, 2021 2nd Grade’s Siyum Hashana at 10:15 AM Father & Son Breakfast for all 6,7,8 Graders, Shachris @7:45 AM followed by breakfast and siyumim and Maseches Megillah Rabbi Weissman’s 2nd grade had a guest speaker who spoke about Naftali Rubin’s great great grandfather, the Dumbover Rebbe their “gadol of the Honors Dinner week”! Monday, June, 14, 2021 8th Grade Graduation Trip Tuesday, June, 15, 2021 7th Grade Siyum Trip IMPORTANT NOTES REGISTRATION FORMS - DUE! Thank you to all the parents who already submitted their completed registration forms for the upcom- ing school year! If you have not yet completed registration, please send Pre1-A talmidim preparing for their Siddur Play this Sunday! in your completed registration to the Business Office as soon as pos- Yeshiva Ketana | Mesivta | Beis Medrash | Kollel | Alumni sible. businessoffice@ohrreuven. 259 Grandview Avenue Suffern, NY 10901 com/(845)362-8362, ex. 108 845.362.8362 www.ohrreuven.com From Kindergarten to Kollel and Beyond! CALENDAR INFORMATION Updated dates for the end of this school year: June 6 - Pre 1A Graduation and Siddur Play June 8 through 10 - Grade 8 General Studies Final Examinations June 10 through 14 - Grades 6-7 General Studies Final Examinations June 13 - 6-8 Siyum Mishnayos June 13 - Yeshiva Ketana Honors Dinner Rabbi -
A Taste of Torah
Lech Lecha 5776 October 23, 2015 This week’s edition is dedicated in memory of Avraham Moshe ben Yehuda Leib, Mr. Bud Glassman a”h, whose 8th yahrtzeit was Tuesday, 7 Cheshvan/October 20th A Taste of Torah Stories For The Soul Spare the Wealth A Cut Above By Rabbi Mordechai Fleisher For more than sixty years, Rabbi Avram has just miraculously defeated live” is a refernce to Avram’s fear that the Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848-1932) served as a mohel. He never refused an four mighty kings. The reason for his going Egyptians would murder him to make his invitation to serve as mohel, and his to war in the first place? No, they weren’t wife available. But what is meant by “go face shone with joy when he had the trying to develop a nuclear weapon, well with me?” Rashi explains that Avram privilege of performing a bris milah on but they had just crushed the armies expected that the Egyptians would offer a Jewish child - “to add another Jew to of five other kings, and, in the process, him gifts to win his “sister’s” hand! How the King’s legions,” he would say. captured Avram’s nephew Lot. Avram felt does this jibe with the Avram who refuses responsible to rescue his nephew, and, with any recompense from the King of Sodom? Once, a huge snowstorm hit Jerusalem, leaving close to three feet of Divine intervention, he won a spectacular One approach to this conundrum may snow on the ground. Walking outside victory. be as follows: Rashi makes it clear that posed a real danger, especially for One of the five kings initially defeated when Avram went down to Egypt, he had someone of Rabbi Sonnenfeld’s age – before Avram appeared on the scene was a shortage of funds, and he incurred debts he was already in his 70’s. -
Jewish Holiday Guide Tu B’ Shvat 1 As Arepresentation Ofthenatural Cycle
Jewish Holiday Guide Tu B’Shvat 15th day of Shvat “…Just as my ancestors planted for me, so I will plant for my children (Talmud Ta’anit 23a).” Tu B’Shvat is a time when we celebrate the New Year for trees. It falls on the 15th of Shvat in the Hebrew calendar and it is a time for us to focus on our ecological responsibilities and the life cycle of renewal. The very first task that was assigned to humans by God was to care for the environment: ‘God took man and put him into the garden to work it and guard 1 it…’ (Genesis 1:15). In Israel, Tu B’shvat is usually celebrated by planting trees and holding the Tu B’shvat seder. Planting trees is a custom that was first held in 1884 in Israel due to the spiritual significance of the land of Israel and the agricultural emphasis that the Zionist brought with them to Israel. The Tu B’shvat seder is formed out of 4 sections for the 4 worlds as the Kabballah says: • The spiritual world of God represented by fire – Atzilut (nobility) • The physical world of human represented by earth – Assiyah (Doing) • The emotional world represented by air – Briyah (Creation) • The philosophical, thoughtful world represented by water – Yetzirah (Making) Each section of the seder also represents one of the four seasons, and mixtures of red and white wine are drunk in different amounts as a representation of the natural cycle. Tu B’ Shvat Tu Purim 14th day of Adar “The Feast of Lots” Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar, as it celebrates the story of two heroes, Esther and Mordecai, and how their courage and actions saved the Jewish people living in Persia from execution. -
Haggadah Portions That Are Talmud Quotes Source Sheet by Emanuel Ben-David
Haggadah portions that are Talmud quotes Source Sheet by Emanuel Ben-David We use two Hebrew words to describe the Ritual of the first night of Passover: ,SEDER - which means order; not a command, but order of things. Also - סֵ דֶ ר changing status of a situation from chaos to orderly, organized (like changing one's status from illegal immigrant to legal resident). Haggadah - from the root that means to tell. As a noun, it would be - הֲ ָ ג דַ ה interpreted as A Story. Lets examine how this word is connected to the commandments that order (dictate, not SEDER...) us to tell a story. שמות י״ג:ג׳ Exodus 13:3 (ג) וַיֹּ֨אמֶ ר מֹשֶׁ֜ ה אֶ ל־הָﬠָ֗ ם זָכ֞ וֹר אֶ ת־ ,And Moses said to the people (3) “Remember this day, on which you הַיּ֤וֹם הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ ר יְצָאתֶ֤ם מִ מִּ צְ רַ֙יִם֙ went free from Egypt, the house of מִ בֵּ ֣ י ת ֲﬠ בָ דִ֔ י ם כִּ֚ י בְּ חֹ֣ זֶק יָ֔ ד הוֹצִ ֧ יא יְהֹוָ ֛ה bondage, how the LORD freed you אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִ זֶּ֑ה וְ ֥לֹא יֵאָכֵ֖ל חָמֵֽ ץ׃ from it with a mighty hand: no leavened bread shall be eaten. שמות י״ג: ח׳ Exodus 13:8 (ח) ְ ו הִ ַ גּ דְ תָּ ֣ לְ בִ נְ �֔ בַּ יּ֥ וֹם הַ ה֖ וּא לֵ אמֹ֑ ר And you shall explain to your (8) בַּ ﬠֲב֣ וּר זֶ֗ ה ﬠָ שָׂ ֤ ה יְ הוָ ה֙ לִ֔ י בְּ צֵ אתִ ֖ י son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I מִ מִּ צְ רָ ֽ יִ ם ׃ ’.went free from Egypt V'Higad'tah - it is not a simple saying, sounding, verbalizing; it is - ָ ְ ו הִ ַ ג דְ תַ Source Sheet created on Sefaria by Rabbi Emanuel Ben-David 1 telling the story in a way that it is understood and verify that indeed it is.