Ma Nishtanah
The Abarbanel poses the following question: During the Seder the son asks four questions, but where does he ever receive his answer? He explains: The main question that the son is asking is regarding the...
Neirot
Revealing Hashem
Through eating the portion of matzah during the Seder night, we reveal the essence of HaShem; a level uncontainable, which even the highest levels of spirituality cannot hold or fully grasp. This is hinted to by...
Breaking the ego
The Talmud says that through the Hallel we have the ability to break the roof. A roof is something above us is analogues to ego that causes us to feel greater then we really...
Breaking Boundaries
The Chidushei Harim explains, that on Pesach the Jewish people have the ability to “break the roofs through the Hallel of the seder.” Even when it seems that due to their sins, it is impossible...
The Hallel
The Talmud says the following curious statment; “The Korban Pesach was only a kzaayis but from the hallel that was recited over it, roofs were broken.”(פסחים פה,ב) The Maharsha explains this to mean that although...
Serving Nature
The Egyptian culture was such that they worshiped nature. The strength of nature reaches its fullest and blooms in the Spring season. This is why HaShem chose to take us out of Egypt during...
Going out in weakness
The Jewish people were commanded before they left Mitzrayim to receive a bris mila, in order that they should go into the desert in pain and weakness. Thus relying not on their own strength...
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...
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...
