Did you ever stop to think how it is that a food (i.e, chometz) that we partake of and enjoy all year round suddenly becomes forbidden to eat, forbidden to even benefit from, forbidden to exist in our homes and domains as ours, and forbidden for us to desire that it exist (even if it belongs [...]
And so we sit by the Seder and tell the story of how Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. That’s terrific, wonderful, really nice. But what do you answer Moshele or Sarale or Tamar or Shalom if they ask,”But Tatty, Abba, Mommy, Ima—I don’t get it. Didn’t Hashem put us in? What are we thanking [...]
There seems to be a consistent, curious phenomenon in the pesukim about the Mishkan. And that is a persistent seeming repetition—again, and again, and again… Let’s start with Parshas Terumah, which teaches us about the klei hamishkan—Hashem commanding to Moshe Rabbeinu how the Mishkan should look, how its vessels should be made, and where they [...]
Post-Purim is not too late to talk about Purim! First of all, the posuk says, “And the month which was transformed for them from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a yom tov.” So we have the whole month! And indeed, the statement, “From when Adar arrives, marbin b’simchah” refers to the entire month [...]
