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Advice For Erev Pesach On Shabbos

Advice For Erev Pesach On Shabbos

by | Mar 24, 2021 |

Please note: The Zmanim presented in this document pertain to Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun, Ramat Beit Shemesh. The rest of the information is universal. [pdf-embedder url="https://yaacovhaber.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KSY-Pesach-Flier-2021_5781.pdf" title="KSY...

A Call To Action

A Call To Action

by | Jan 18, 2013 | ,

The great achievement of the Jews during the first Shabbos HaGodol was that they actually performed a deed which was calculated to violate the sensibilities of the Egyptians: they bought Paschal lambs from the Egyptians, and explained to the Egyptians that these lambs...

When Jews Show Passion

by | Jan 13, 2011 | ,

Dedicated by the Sitzer family in memory of their grandmother and my great aunt, Chaya Rachel bas Menashe Sitzer a"h (nee Haber) who left this world in 5735 (1975). She arrived in the United States from Europe in 1921 with 3 children (the fourth child was born in...

Fire At the Seder

Fire At the Seder

by | Mar 22, 2010 | ,

One of the great heroes of the Holocaust was Reb Kalman Klonymus Shapiro, the Piazetzner Rebbe. In the prime of his life as a Rebbe he was taken into the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto. He had a work load like everyone else, suffered from malnutrition, and was surrounded...

The Festival Cycle

The Festival Cycle

by | May 1, 2007 | , ,

Holidays are those times in the year which draw our attention to a special message underlying them. They ask us to take to heart certain fundamental truths that they aim to impress upon us. Rising above the other days of the year, they call us out of our humdrum existence, to dedicate to them our minds and lives.
Our daily life is devoted to our ordinary pursuits and activities by means of which we strive to build our future. The holidays interrupt our labors, to revive those fundamental ideas upon which our life is based.

Passover

by | Apr 1, 2007 |

Table of Contents Background The Month Of Nisan Maot Chittin A Pre-Passover Custom Passover Guideline for Passover Preparations The Passover Seder Background Our ancestors originally arrived to live in Egypt in order to escape the harsh famine in the land of Canaan....

What Can We Accomplish at the Seder

by | Oct 31, 2006 |

Maybe it was the Seder that shook up the Heavens and gave us the Modern State of Israel. "Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarphon were conducting a Seder in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the Exodus all that night, until...

A Chassidic Seder

by | Oct 31, 2006 |

Talk given in Baltimore, MD, 3/25/2006 in Congregation Bnei Torah Shaarei Zion While visiting London a few months ago, I heard the following story from a 19 year old Jewish girl. She was vacationing in a beach house in Thailand when the Tsunami hit. Within moments she...

Pesach – Unburdened (2004)

by | Oct 31, 2006 |

When we search for chometz we should concentrate on its symbolism of arrogance and take the opportunity to check every crack and crevice of our soul. We all remember the famous advertisement of the Boys Club of America. There was a boy with an ear to ear smile...