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Category: What is Passover?
What are Kitniyot and when can I eat it?
In the early medieval period, it became customary for Ashkenazi Jews to not eat a category of foods called kitniyot. What are they?
Exploring Judaism
March 31, 2022
CJLS
Halakhah
What is Hameitz and what do we do with it?
Hametz, is defined as any food made of wheat, barley, oats, spelt, and rye—that has been made wet and left unbaked for more than 18 ...
Rabbi Alan Lucas
,
The Observant Life (Book)
March 22, 2022
Passover
What is Passover?
Passover Themes, The Month of Nisan, and the Fast of the Firstborn
Passover, commemorates the exodus from Egypt. On a spiritual level, the festival confronts us with the notion of redemption.
Rabbi Alan Lucas
,
The Observant Life (Book)
March 22, 2022
Passover
What is Passover?
The Seder: An Overview
The Passover seder is the cumulative result of untold generations of Jews telling the same story, the Exodus from Egypt.
Rabbi Alan Lucas
,
The Observant Life (Book)
March 22, 2022
How to observe Passover
Passover