Tzav-What’s in a commandment?
A short essay on the essence of mitzvot.
Author: Editor
Vayikra – a small alef
True Humility is not about belittling ourselves, it is about being in touch with reality.
Reciting the Hagadah
The Zohar writes, that whoever tells over what occurred by yetzias mitzrayim and celebrates it joyfully, will merit being joyous with the Shechinah in Olam Haba. The Arizal said that the haggada should be...
Seeing Eliyahu
When he was eight years old, the Frierdiker Rebbe recorded the events of the previous Pesach in his diary: Erev Pesach, after learning the Seder Korbon Pesach with me, my father said, “Tonight, Eliyahu...
Becoming a Mentch
The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rabbi Sholom DovBer, once told the his son, the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe: “Yosef Yitzchok, during the Seder, and especially when opening the door for Eliyahu Hanavi, one must think...
Mundane speech
The Shaloh Hakadosh writes: The Seder night, and all its halachos, are of great kedusha, for this is when Hashem chose us from all other nations and gave us his mitzvos. Therefore, on this...
Spiritual freedom
spiritual freedom
Everything has a plan
The night of Pesach is called, “The Seder night,” meaning the night of order. This hints to the fact that everything that has happened to the Jewish people from the time of yetzi-as Mitzrayim (the...
If Hashem would not have freed us…
The Hagadah says that were it not for Hashem freeing us from us Mitzrayim we would still be there today. Now, this begs to question wouldn’t it be possible that we would somehow become...
Hiding the Afikoman
Reb Chaim Brisker explains that the custom of hiding the Afikoman has its roots in Halachah: eating the afikoman as the last item of the meal commemorates the Korban Pesach which was the last to...
