by MAJ Jonas Vogelhut | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Dear family and friends, This morning started with a cold rain. This was a blessing, as it padded the loose sand and made for a clear, crisp day. For me and two other Jewish soldiers, the wonderful duo of Chaplain Yacovac, 3rd Infantry Division and Chaplain Waynick,...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Pessah and its memories are why we are here and why we have the right to be here. Now that Purim, with all of its joys, hangovers and calories, is out of the way, the Jewish world bravely confronts the great holiday of Pessah and its myriad preparatory requirements....
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
As everyone knows, on the first night of Pesach we eat matzah and bitter herbs, we recline at the table, and we drink five cups of wine. Five cups of wine? We drink four cups of wine, don’t we? Well, that depends whom you ask. Of course, it really is only four...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Red wine, matzah, marror, charoset. Given the centrality of food at the Pesach Seder, it’s a wonder the Sages didn’t ordain chopped liver molds in the shape of the Pesach lamb, or ice sculptures to depict the Splitting of the Sea. But even if they lacked...
by Rabbi Gershon Weiss | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
The Passover Haggadah says: “Asher Bachar Banu Mikol Am” — Who chose us out of all peoples. The Klausenberger Rebbe was taken as part of a slave-labor group from Auschwitz to Warsaw to dismantle the bombed-out buildings. The work was done at a...
