Rabbi Benjamin Blech
Passover
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Excerpted from Rabbi Blech’s just published haggadah, Redemption, Then and Now. What is the single most important idea of the Passover Seder? For me, it's always been captured best by the very word that gives it its name. The ritual of this night that commemorates the birth of the Jewish people on the eve of […]
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The message of Passover is straightforward: Freedom. God worked His magic to take the Jewish people out of their bondage of Egypt and onward to Mount Sinai to receive the Torah for their mission to be a nation that shall be a light unto nations. And yet for all its simplicity, much of the world […]
October 7 has left us in trauma. We walk around doing what we need to do, trying to live the life of October 6. But we are in mourning. We cannot imagine a world different than that of October 8. In the redemptive spirit of Passover, I offer this short insight gleaned from Rabbi Akiva, […]
Everything you need to know about the Jewish holiday of freedom.