Passover

Image via WikipediaBy faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. (Heb_11:28)When Moses boldly led Israel out of Egypt, his fearlessness was based upon his faith in the true and living God. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible" (Heb_11:28). His confidence in t

  RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH RENEWAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:PASSOVER FREEDOM Tuesday, April 8, 2008 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER  RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER   Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor No one is truly free until all live in peace Published Tuesday, Apri

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH RENEWAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:CHAROSET:PASSOVER     RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:THE REAL REASON FOR CHAROSET ON PASSOVER IS THE SONG OF SONGS RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THE REAL REASON FOR CHAROSET ON PASSOVER IS THE SONG OF SONGS   Shalom:   Ellen and I are preparing for Passover and our Seder. We have 20 attending. If you are with -in driving dist

 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:PASSOVER:Dry Bones, Hear the Word of the Lord:CHUMETZ IS EGO   PASSOVERSPECIAL PARASHA "SEGMENTS" =EXODUS 33:12-34:26 andNUMBERS 28:19-25SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC BLUFFTON, SC"Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dried Bones""God ...set me down in the valley, which was full of bones...they werevery  abundant... they were ve

Did you know that a PAGAN historian documented the darkness that covered the earth during the time of Passover in 32 A.D.?In approximately 52 A.D., a pagan historian named Thallus, who lived shortly after the resurrection of Christ, wrote about a mysterious darkness that covered the earth during the time of Passover in 32 A.D. Thallus attempted to explain it away as an eclipse of the sun. However,

Have you ever wondered where the word "Easter" comes from?The Britannica Encyclopedia (1934) states:“EASTER (es’ter). Ostara, or Eastre, was the goddess of Spring in the religion of the ancient Angles and Saxons. Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor. With the beginnings of Christianity, the old gods were put aside. From then on the festival was celebrated in honor of the resurrec

Matzo Brittle =========== 1 cup unsalted butter or margarine 1 cup brown sugar/or white if not available 1 cup finely chopped nuts (can use cashews, pecans, almonds or walnuts) Bring the above to a boil Preheat oven to 350 Spray bottom of pan or line with foil and spray line bottom of cookie sheet with 4 large pieces of matzos pour mixture of matzos Bake [...]

I have met many Jewish guests this week and our biggest discussion is about being Jewish and living on a small resort island in a small Caribbean Christian country. It is a very strange idea if you really think about it.Anyway, this year the JCTC (Jewish Community of Turks and Caicos) held a community seder at Beaches resort. $100 per person, no clean up or cooking necessary, servers and drinks included. I could not go bit I hear it went well.My story...I went to IGA the Tuesday before Pesach and they still hadn't put the Passover food out. Luckily there was a lovely Italian jewish couple staying at the resort and taking my Pilates mat classes who gave me 1/2 a box of matzo (enough for me for 8 days). Then I went to IGA this week and the Passover food was out, so I got more stuff. Di

Our Faith Column this week will look at Passover which runs from 19 to 27 April. Rabbi Reuven Leigh discusses the family-focused nature of the festival.

“Now, we are here; next year we should be in the land of Israel. This year we are slaves; next year — free people.” -The Haggadah “The tried to kill us; they failed; let’s eat!” -My husband Only in my life is it possible to be asked to bring fruit salad for 12 to a Pastor Appreciation luncheon on [...]

For viewers of the U.S. feeds of the shows, this week marked the end of Torchwood and the start of a new season of Doctor Who. Exit Wounds, the finale of Torchwood presented a surprise as it turned out that Jack’s brother Gray, and not John, was the real villain. John was really the [...]

After two days of slaving over a hot stove and oven, I made a nice Passover dinner that even my own Jewish mother was impressed by. (And conceded that my brisket tasted better than hers.) Ah, my SAHM days are really paying off.  Cooking a meal like this that my family wolfed down in 15 minutes made [...]

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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUD YERUSHALMI AND THE FOUR CUPS OF WINE ON PASSOVER / HAGADDAH   Shalom and a sweet Pesach:   All of us who have attended a Passover Seder are familiar with the Hagaddah's explanation of the four cupsof wine. The Yerushalmi Talmud gives three other explanations.   The sages ask in Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Pesachim 10:1, 37b: "From what texts are the four cups of wine derived?"Rabbi Yohanan said in the name of Rabbi Benayah:  "They correspond to the four redemptions: Say, therefore, to the Israelites:  I am God and I will take you out,  Vehotzeiti ,Vehitzalti - "And I shall deliver,"Vega'alti - "And I shall redeem,"Velakachti - "And I shall take."  (Exodus 6:6-7) This is 

As we begin the first night of Passover, we can we learn from the Old Testament and God’s relationship with His people,Israel? Exodus 19:1-25. 1. In the third month after they set out from Egypt, Israel reaches the desert of Sinai and camps at the foot of the mountain. Verses 1-2. It is often when we [...]

Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu ha-Navi) being fed by ravens from "Descriptive catalogue of a collection of objects of Jewish ceremonial Objects"By Cyrus Adler, Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, Ephraim Benguiat, Smithsonian InstitutionPublished 1901 23 pages Original from Harvard University 1899Here you may download a public domain copy in PDF format or you may view it online here Descriptive catalogue of a collection of objects of Jewish ceremonial ObjectsThis image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years.See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain In the United

  Shalom and Chag Sameach and Happy Passover!   As always, for those who wish to post, send an email to spiritualrenewal@shamash.org . If you want YOUR email left off, please say so, and I will remove it, before posting it. I will do the same with names.   If you are forwarding this to friends, and they wish to sign up, all they need do is to email listserv@shamash.org (no 'e' in serv) and write in the body, with nothing in the subject, 'SUBSCRIBE SPIRITUALRENEWAL your name." "Your name", can be an avatar of two words, or simply the word 'anonymous'. The computer needs something. This class from Hebrew College, outside of Boston, MA, USA, is 100% free to audit and participate in.   Ok. So let us begin.   All of us, in our lives, at one time or another,

Ruthy’s story  One of the most significant aspects of Passover is liberty (חֵרוּת)and freedom (חֹפֶשׁ) . The biblical story tells us about the liberation of the people of Israel from their slavery in Egypt. The Haggadah tells us that “in every generation one must feel as though s/he personally had been rescued from Egypt”. The personalization of [...]

My friend Mendel stopped by Friday to drop off some hand-made matzohs and to wish me Happy Passover. The caption for this photo is Chicks in a Jacuzzi Relaxing Before Passover, so if you came here looking for hot, steamy Jewish babes, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. For hot, steamy Jewish babes you will have to visit my blog...

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THE REAL REASON FOR CHAROSET ON PASSOVER IS THE SONG OF SONGS   Shalom:   Ellen and I are preparing for Passover and our Seder. We have 20 attending. If you are with -in driving distance of us, and have no where to partake of a Seder, be you of the Jewish faith or not, email us at RabbiASegal@aol.com and a place will be made for you. We start at 6 PM Saturday April 19th.   After all  the years of Ellen and I making Seders or attending them, Ellen asked, why is there no brachah, blessing, mentioned to do for the charoset? And what is the real reason it is there?    Dovid Melach [King David ] tells us to make at least 100 beracoth a day, and here is an opportunity to make one over the spices, the fruit and nuts, in the charose

Tonight is the first night of Passover. As a kid, one of the standout holidays for me was Passover - love Passover. It is one of my favorite holidays. Each year with slight variation as to locale, our family would gather together for the traditional (but somewhat abbreviated version) Seder. It was a time of [...]

Today I’m experiencing somewhat of déjà vu. I’ve just read the most recent post on Jewsingreen.com concerning an Orthodox chaplain -- Army Captain Shmuel Felzenberg – serving in Afghanistan. The article is by Lee Lawrence, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. In describing Chaplain Felzenberg’s kosher dietary needs, Lawrence says that Felzenberg has “Army-supplied kosher meals. For holidays like Passover, the Army provides supplies, right down to Passover-approved wine.” The U.S. Army has obviously come a long way from my time as an army officer’s wife in Munich, Germany, where the Orthodox chaplain stationed there our first year influenced my husband and me to decide to keep kosher. In those days we did not get kosher food items for Passover from the

The Washington Haggadah (Central Europe, January 29, 1478). Known as the Washington Haggadah because of its presence in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., this manuscript is the Library's most important illuminated Hebrew manuscript. The illustration here depicts the Messiah heralded. It features the Messiah -- or Elijah, the harbinger of the Messiah -- approaching Jerusalem astride a donkey.The commandment of hiddur mitzvah, which urges one to adorn and beautify the implements of holiness, is the fundamental justification within Judaism for the embellishment, through the ages, of the books, manuscripts, documents, and ritual artifacts of Jewish life.The Library's most important Hebrew illuminated manuscript is known as the "Washington Haggadah" because of its location in Washing

 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER   Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor No one is truly free until all live in peace Published Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Comment on this | Email it | Print it | Feeds | | | | | | | Passover begins sundown April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but also of those wanting spiritual and human connection. The story of Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh 3,500 years ago, is retold yearly, reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. ''A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only o

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BOB DYLAN + MARLON BRANDO AT PASSOVER SEDER This was published last year in the LA Jewish Journal and this year some other papers are running it.  It is such a weird juxtaposition of people----Dylan, Brando.  Louis Kemp, of Kemp Seafoods, the author, is not lying about being Bob Dylan's childhood friend--he is mentioned in all Dylan bios By Louie Kemp You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most. I got to know Marlon about 30 years ago through a mutual friend. His son, Christian, came to work for me in fisheries I owned in Alaska and Minnesota. Marlon

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY, LET THEM ENTER AND EAT : PASSOVER :  KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL   Dear Editor:   Passover begins sundown, April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." [KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL ] The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but of those wanting spiritual and human connection. Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh circa 3500 years ago, is re- told yearly reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in  Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only of a menu. None of us are truly free, unless all of us live in Shalom.

Are you attending passover seder and you’re not sure what to wear? The key to dressing appropriately and fashionable for passover dinner is modesty. The more conservative you dress, the better. If you opt to wear a dress or skirt for passover seder, do make sure that the skirt is of an appropriate length (i.e. knee-length or longer). Nevertheless, traditionally, skirts [...]

Passover is the Festival for freedom for Jews worldwide. If so, then why is it that we feel so restricted when it comes to this wonderful holiday? Maybe I'm wrong but part of the holiday atmosphere is clouded by worries of, we can't eat this and we can't eat that. But who says that that is the case? If you're one of the many that eat gebrokts, mish (mix foods), eat kitnios or even none you have NOTHING to be concerned about. There are so many foods that one can prepare for the Pesach holiday that it just boggles the mind. Here is a recipe for Charoset, the traditional food that we eat on Pesach. Its texture reminds us of the mortar used by the slaves in Egypt to build. 1 cup of walnuts 1 granny smith green apple 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. sugar red wine to moisten Chop the nuts and apple

IngredientsFor the cake:5 egg yolks1 1/2 cups sugarzest of 2 lemons, grated1/2 cup fresh lemon juice1/2 cup poppy seeds1 cup matzah meal cake flour3 tablespoons potato starch10 egg whites1 teaspoon cream of tartar1/8 teaspoon saltFor the lemon glaze:3 cups confectioners' sugar7 tablespoons fresh lemon juice2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zestCooking InstructionsFor the cake:1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the egg yolks and 1 cup of the sugar. Start the mixer on low speed and gradually increase to high speed. Beat until the mixture is thick, moussy and pale yellow, about 8 minutes. Beat in the lemon zest, lemon juice andpoppy seeds.3. Sift the matzah meal cake flour and potato starch over the yolk mixture, but don't mix.4. Place the egg whites in a

American chaplain Rabbi Hershel Schaecter conducts Second Passover services for Buchenwald survivors shortly after liberation. [Photograph #26278]Date: May 18, 1945. Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany. Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park. Copyright: Public Domain American chaplain Rabbi Hershel Schaecter conducts Second Passover services for Buchenwald survivors shortly after liberation.Pictured in the first row wearing shorts is Robert Buechler, while the youth sitting in front of the lecturn, looking back at the camera, is Stefan Jakubowicz. Israel Meir Lau is pictured sitting third from left, in the first row, between two American soldiers. Seated in the second row are Jakub Chojt (left side, wearing a white shirt) and brothers, Yo

It's incredible how the Kosher for Passover food market has expanded. I mean take you local grocery for example (well, I guess in the Tri-State Area, as I don't know much about what goes on elsewhere). After Purim, you can immediately see a change in the stores; a section of the store is emptied and shelves cleaned and covered in white paper. Suddenly there is a nice sized Passover department, its shelves fully stocked with Passover goodies ranging from macaroons, Passover cookies and Passover candies to pickles, canned goods and of course, Matza!! What is matzah you ask? The biblical narrative relates that the Israelites left Egypt in such haste, they could not wait for their bread dough to rise so in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt, we traditionally eat matzah. Everything (or

Seder Haggadah shel Pesah (Passover Haggadah) (Amsterdam, 1695). Moses (right and above) and Aaron, his older brother and the founder of the Jewish priesthood, are depicted on the title page of the Amsterdam Haggadah.n equally influential haggadah, which became the prototype for subsequent Ashkenazi haggadot, appeared in Amsterdam in 1695. Known as "The Amsterdam Haggadah,"it was extensively illustrated with copper engravings executed by the proselyte Abraham ben Jacob, who based his depictions on those of Matthaeus Merian, a Christian artist popular in the early seventeenth century. The Amsterdam Haggadah's illustrations were widely imitated and copied over the course of the next century both in printed works and in manuscripts. Beauty in HolinessThis image (or other media file) is in the

Digital ID: cph 3b22239 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-74996 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,524 kilobytes)TITLE: The Jewish passover of 1858. CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP2.L52 1858 (Case Y) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-74996 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.SUMMARY: 2 illustrations of kosher bakery, Chatham St., N.Y.C. 1. General view of preparing an dbaking metzoth, the unleavened bread for the passover; 2. Weighing an kneading of the flour in presence of the Rabbi. MEDIUM: 1 print : wood engraving. CREATED, PUBLISHED: 1858.NOTES: Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustra

We have put together a nice selection of Kosher for Passover Food. Starting with our Large Selection of Passover Gift Baskets and going on to the selection of Passover Nuts and also our Sweet selection of Passover Candy and Passover Chocolate and you can also get all you Passover Cake and Cookies.

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : TALMUDIC DISCOURSE: PASSOVER, EXODUS, MOSES' SPIRITUAL AWAKENING    Shalom Talmudim:   It has been posited that the whole of Genesis is to lead our people to commit the sin against their brother Joseph, to eventually get the clan of Israel, into Egypt, and into slavery. This slavery would eventually have them yearn for liberation and acceptance of Torah.   Hence Moses, a Levite son of the Israelite clan, with an Egyptian name, grew up in the house of Pharaoh, as a prince of Egypt. The Torah has to have him have an national  awakening and identify with his people. Hence the verses of Exodus 2:11-15, has Moses refer to his fellow Israelites as ''brethren'' twice, and for the first time Moses actually sees their burdens and suffering.

 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TWAS A CHANCE FOR TWO SHEHECHEYANU  /  LAST BITE OF PASSOVER     ''Tonight 2/20/08 is the full lunar eclipse at 9:00 PM. The nextone won't be for two years so don't miss the chance to say a shehecheyanu!''   Shalom:   Last night's eclipse was marvelous especially when the moon turned blood red. But while our eclipse will come again in two years, we Jews had another shehecheyanu to say yesterday.   Yesterday was the celebration of Purim Katan, as it was Adar One 14.   There's a strong connection between Purim and Purim Katan. The Talmud teaches teaches: "There is no difference between the first Adar (Purim)  and the second Adar (Purim) , but the reading of the Megillah and the distribution of gifts

Spring has finally arrived.I, for one, am overjoyed. Warm weather, spending time out of doors without a snow shovel or layers of excess clothing, backyard gatherings, and barbeques .. all of the things that make life great. About the only thing I do not look forward to is the inevitable yard work but the way I figure it that is where the industrious young enterprenuers in my neighborhood come in. I am all for helping a young business person especially if it gets me out of cutting the grass.And .. on top of everything else .. Easter is just around the corner. Sunday, April 8. The day that the Easter Bunny makes his rounds and brings all of those wonderful, sweet treats to all of the good little boys and girls regardless of their age.Easter is probably my favorite Spring day. It is a family day with great fun, great food, and some very colorful, very sweet treats. You have jelly beans, Peeps (gotta have my Peeps), Marshmallow eggs, malted milk balls, Chocolate Easter Bunnies (I, for one,

On Sunday, my mother and I were talking about something, and she told me that she bought some frozen vegetable mix to eat during Passover. It included corn.She was not happy when I told her that, as a grain, corn is not Pesach-friendly. Of course, that was the same thing that happened many years ago, when I told her that peanut butter was not kosher for Passover either.This year, though, instead of my traditional confusion as to what I can and cannot eat during the holiday, I just decided to give up processed carbs altogether. Tonight I'm eating chicken on a salad with olive oil and red wine vinegar.Admittedly, my decision is mostly because matzo is gross, and because a strict interpretation of the rules has led me to conclude that everything good is prohibited anyway. But in addition, it's a giant experiment in the Atkins diet. Maybe it'll work and I'll lose 10 pounds, maybe it won't. But at least I won't inadvertently eat something leavened.And no matter what, it's bette

   It's sundown here on the east coast, so I want to wish all my Jewish readers a Happy Passover.

A beautiful Passover story of 2 Chasidic Rebbes who survived the Holocaust. The Extra Matzah Rabbi Eliezer Zusha Portugal (1896-1982), the Skulener [pronounced skoo-LEH-ner] Rebbe, was the Chassidic Rebbe from a small town, Sculeni, in what was then northeastern Romania (now Ukraine). Toward the... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Marijuana.I'm still not sure about Peanut Butter, though.

As opposed to the nasty corn syrup kind.

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This is important for all you coffee drinkers out there. Make sure your coffee has an OUP for Passover. Arutz Sheva Rabbi Shmuel Singer - overseer of the Orthodox Union’s “Kosher for Passover” certification program - writes that the OU has changed its policy regarding coffee on... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Boston, Massachusetts (A P): CNN reported that Jonah Pesner, who is going to run in the marathon for the autism charity with his wife, is going to have a meal of matzoh the night before the Boston Marathon. Although this is not a usual diet for people going for marathons, ...