Category: Pesach Tidbits

In celebrating the exodus from Mitzrayim we need to eat poor bread, lechem Ony, made with only bread and water that is devoid of any flavor and not Matza Ashirah rich bread with any flavor. This is  because through yitziyas...

The Baal Hatanya says: Michla d’mheimnusa, bread of faith is the first night, miIchla dasvasa bread of healing is the second night. His son the Mittler Rebbe explained; that if the healing brings somebody...

Ba’erev tochlu matzos; “In the evening you shall eat matzos”. The word erev (evening) is used which also means sweet. This is to teach us that the eating of the matzos should be with...

Once, during the festive meal of the last day of Pesach in the home of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, there was a shortage of whole matzos (shleimos). When those sitting by...