Do not hold it back
The month of Nisan and the holiday of Pesach especially, are opportune times for the coming of Moshiach. A person must make sure that his actions do not hold back the redemption that is awaited at...
Category: HOLIDAYS
Let’s go to Tzion
One time there arrived at the home R’ Yisroel of Koznitz a Jewish soldier from the Cantonists and requested that he able to join them for the seder. Reb Yisroel gladly obliged and the...
Everything with a “Seder”
The Maharil writes that every person must be filled with fear in fulfilling all that the Sages have established for the Seder and all they have put into the Haggada. Even if something may...
Asking for what you need
When coming to the words, ‘kan haben sho’el’ (here the son asks Mah Nishtana), the tzaddik Reb Osher of Stolin once said that now is the time when every Jew can ask from Hashem...
Engraining faith
The generation that left Mitzrayim they were commanded concerning chometz for one day only. This is because they saw the miracles of Hashem with their own eyes. Therefore, this was sufficient to engrain emunah...
How much matzah?
The eating of matzah is called michla d’asvasa—the food of healing. Eating matzah on pesach is considered medicine for the soul. Just as with physical medicine the prescription is not the same for everyone,...
Tchiyas hameisim
Because eating matzos rectifies the sin of Adam it is called מיכלא דאסוותא – “The food of healing”. This is because through the sin, death was brought into the world and through eating matzah...
Rectification of Sin
Eating matza which is made out of wheat is a rectification for the sin of Adam who ate from the Tree of Knowledge which was, according to the Talmud wheat (סנהדרין ע, א). It...
Matza Zu – This Matzah
While reciting the Haggadah at the Seder, the tzaddik Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev, would be filled with excitement and tremendous passion. Reaching the words ‘Matzah zu,’ he would become so caught in dveikus...
The four kosos with a fire
After the passing of the holy tzaddik Reb Menachem Mendel of Vorki, many of his chassidim accepted the tzaddik Reb Berish of Biala as Rebbe. On the first night of Pesach, they brought him...
