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Let us start at the very beginning of the Seder. After we raise the first cup of wine and recite Kiddush, we wash our hands without a blessing before eating a vegetable, usually parsley, and we make the blessing to God "Creator of the fruit of the earth.” The usual explanation for this is that karpas is the Greek word for vegetation, and Greco-Roman meals would generally begin with the vegetable hors-d'oeuvre together with a ‘dip.' The seder is a reclining meal reminiscent of ...

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From the blog of David Lerner at The Times of Israel

From the blog of David Walk at The Times of Israel

There are some, say the Talmud, who acquire their world in an hour and others who lose it in an hour.

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of freedom and what that means. Both these ideas, slavery and freedom are crucial to the significance of Pesach or Passover as it is more commonly known in English. They are two sides of one coin,…

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