Pesah

How can we respond to a Seder during which it is prohibited to host guests? Yitzchak Etshalom and David Block each offer unique tefillot to be recited at our Seder table this year.

Where is Yosef in the haggadah? Max Hollander suggests that through his absence, he is very present, teaching us about the importance of remembering the forgotten.

As we approach Pesach, Bruce Black's latest poem vividly retells the splitting of the sea.

Esther Lindell reviews “The Haggadah about Nothing,” Rabbi Sam Reinstein’s not-too-serious exploration of how the Haggadah relates to Seinfeld, the ever-popular 90s sitcom.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that we can best understand the Haggadah against the backdrop of Sefer Devarim.

Tzvi Sinensky argues compellingly for a new way to understand the relationship between Shir HaShirim and Pesach in times of quarantine.

Harris Bor meditates on the world of Passover in his new poem for the Lehrhaus.

Yosef Lindell argues that the Haggadah focuses on the story of the Exodus rather than on the laws of the paschal sacrifice as a way of looking forward towards the future redemption.

Joshua Shapiro explains how close readers of the Biblical text can find a unifying theory for reason behind the ten plagues.

נמשלת ללבנה ניסן תשפ׳ו שושנה הברמן והוצאתי והצלתי וגאלתי .ולקחתי כאיילת השחר שבקע אורה ,כך היא גאולתן של ישראל ,בתחילה קימעא קימעא כל מה שהיא הולכת .היא רבה, והולכת ?היינו כחולמים -בזמן שהרועה תועה .תועין אחריו -אבל אפילו בצל...