In a few days, or nights, we will be sitting by the Seder, going through the various time-honored rituals, from the wine spilling on the table, to the way-too-long-oh-so-cute renditions of “Mah Nishtanah,” to the slight giggling heard after the second cup of wine, to the munch-munch-munch of how-much-is-a-kezayis-anyway matzah, to the cough-cough-coughing of real [...]
The culmination of the four parshiyos read publicly in Adar, leading up to Shabbos Hagadol and Pesach, is called Parshas Hachodesh, the parshah in the Torah dealing with the korban Pesach, eating matzah, the prohibitions of chometz, etc. Yet it is known as Parshas Hachodesh, based on its opening statement, “This month shall be for [...]
There a few premises that need to be assumed before we can get into a deeper discussion and understanding of Parshas Hachodesh. One: The four parshiyos that we read in Adar are not read by happenstance and are not coincidentally found one after another. Rather, they represent a very specific, ordered process, taking us from [...]
