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Yom Kippur, Joy? Yom Kippur, by far the scariest day of the year – yet the Mishnah (Ta’anis 26b) tells us that Yom Kippur was one of the ‘happiest times for the Jewish People’      (אמר רבן שמעון בן גמליאל לא…

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ARUR HAMAN, BARUCH MORDECHAI

One of the central themes on this strange yet powerful day of Purim is the seeming strange mitzvah Derabanan of becoming intoxicated. To explain-away the mitzvah as an opportunity to ‘let loose’ for one day a year, seems to rob…

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Yachatz

Strange Minhag? Why are we starting off Sippur Yetziat Mitzrayim with this ‘Breaking the Matzah’? What does it represent? A famous story is recounted about a man who used to be a member of the “Hells Angels” biking group. Travelling across America with his group for about…

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What’s the Big Deal?

Everyone is going nuts about Purim!!! What’s the big deal?? Is Purim the only time The Jewish People were threatened with destruction and have been saved in the last minute? (For example Sancheriv lays siege to Jerusalem 100 years before…

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