On Prayer
All people pray. Regardless of our intellectual conflicts, we feel in our deepest selves an existential longing to transcend our...
Health: A Public Issue
Rabbi Mark H. Levin, DHL April 16, 2021 This week’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, plunges for three long biblical chapters into...
A Wandering Aramean and Me
Haggadah #11 Arami Oved Avi: A Wandering Aramean Tried to Kill My Father, and Dayeinu: It would have been enough. Three Torah sections...
From Degradation to Glory, Slavery to Freedom
Haggadah #10 Metehillah: In the Beginning Our Ancestors were Idol Worshippers Now we begin once again to recite the story from a...
Our Four Children: Each Special in His/Her Way
Haggadah #9 The Four Sons (Children) We recite our Magid section, telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt, over the second cup of...
You Shall Explain to Your Child When S/He Asks ...
Haggadah #8 Rabbis Eleazar, Yehoshua, Elazar ben Azariah, Akiva, Tarphon, and ben Zoma: five of the most famous Tannaim, discuss all...
Slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt: Now What?
Haggadah #7 Avadim Hayinu: We Were Slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt We intend to tell the central Jewish story: How God brought us out of Egypt...
Why Do Jews Answer a Question With A Question? Do We?
Haggadah #6 Mah Nishtanah: The Four Questions You’ve learned the most important lesson of your life! What do you do now? You want to...
From Slavery to Freedom
Haggadah #5 Yahatz and Ha Lachma Anya Yahatz On the seder table you’ve placed a stack of 3 matzahs, often termed “Cohen, Levite and...
Wash? What For? Urhatz and Karpas
Haggadah #4 The first hand washing and eating a spring green Why do we wash our hands? During this Covid pandemic, “to save my life”...
