Category: Pesach Tidbits

At the conclusion of the Pesach Seder, the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, was wont to say: Master of the Universe! I have done Your will and have properly conducted the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...