FREEDOM IN CHAINS
I don’t know about you, but I love Pesach. It’s a time for family, stories, soft matzah (for us Sephardim) and of course, time off school/work. The overriding theme about the holiday of Pesach is the notion of freedom, liberation…
7th Day of Pesah: Institutional Innovations
The last day of Pesah ends with a yom which introduces a concept that isn’t expressed in the opening days of the festival. We recognise the 7th day as the day that G-d split the sea for us and we…
Passover Tells Us: Teach Your Children Well
As one nation after another in Africa and the Middle East engages in a fight for freedom, Passover, which begins this week, still has much to teach us about the nature of that fight. The Jewish festival of freedom is…
Message from the Chief Rabbi
At our Seder tables, we will declare: “My father was a wandering Aramean and he went down to Egypt…and there he became a nation.” (Deuteronomy 26:5) However, after our deliverance from Egypt, at the time of our acceptance of the…
The Night of miracles!
The Prince of Mannheim, once approached the 19th century Sage – Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Berlin Zts’l and asked him this question: “Every year at the Seder on Pesach, Jewish children ask ‘MahNishtana…,Why is this night different from all other nights?’ But Pesach is…
