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Passover – Pesach

Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. It is celebrated every year with a Seder and a week-long festival.

Numbers 9:1-5 – The Second Passover

June 26, 2024June 20, 2024

We all know about the first Passover when God took the Jewish people out of Egypt. When was the second Passover? Did Israel celebrate Passover in the wilderness?

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Categories Bamidbar - Numbers Tags Joshua - Yehoshua, Land of Israel, Passover - Pesach

Leviticus 23:15-16 – When is Shavuot?

August 8, 2024May 15, 2024

The Torah tells us the date for every festival except for Shavuot. Why isn’t the time of Shavuot clearly stated?

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Categories Vayikra - Leviticus, Yom Tov - Festivals Tags Mount Sinai - Har Sinai, Passover - Pesach, Rabbi Sorotzkin

Leviticus 6:9-11 – Eating the Meal Offering

August 8, 2024March 27, 2024

Leviticus 2:1-16 tells about different types of meal offerings. Now in Leviticus 6:7-11 we learn more details about these offerings.

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Categories Vayikra - Leviticus Tags matzah, meal offering, Passover - Pesach, priest - kohen, Rabbi Sorotzkin

Parshat Pinchas Summary

July 25, 2024May 16, 2022

Parshat Pinchas is the 8th parsha in Sefer Bamidbar (also known as Numbers).

This parsha is verses Numbers 25:10 – 30:1, or a total of 168 verses.

Here is a brief summary for each aliyah.

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Categories Bamidbar - Numbers Tags Passover - Pesach, priest - kohen, Rosh Hashanah, sacrifices - offerings, Shabbat, Sukkot, Yom Kippur

Parshat Behaalotecha Summary

June 12, 2025May 4, 2022

Parshat Behaalotecha is the 3rd parsha in Sefer Bamidbar (also known as Numbers).

This parsha is verses Numbers 8:1 – 12:16, or a total of 136 verses.

Here is a brief summary for each aliyah.

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Categories Bamidbar - Numbers Tags Aaron - Aharon, Miriam, Moses - Moshe, Passover - Pesach, tabernacle - mishkan

Parshat Emor Summary

May 15, 2025April 5, 2022

Parshat Emor is the 8th parsha in Sefer Vayikra (also known as Leviticus).

This parsha is verses Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23, or a total of 124 verses.

Here is a brief summary for each aliyah.

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Categories Vayikra - Leviticus Tags High Priest - Kohen Gadol, Passover - Pesach, priest - kohen, Sukkot

Spring, Trees, and Pesach

November 1, 2023March 1, 2013

Parshat Ki Tisa 5773

Spring is definitely in the air.

It’s a good thing, too.

Pesach /Passover is now less than a month away and Pesach must be celebrated in the spring.

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Categories Shemot - Exodus Tags matzah, Passover - Pesach, Rambam - Maimonides

Why the Kohen Gadol brings a Daily Meal Offering

December 5, 2024March 29, 2012

Parshat Tzav 5772
It’s important to develop sound habits.

But why would God insist that the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) develop the habit of bringing a meal offering every day?

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Categories Vayikra - Leviticus Tags Abarbanel, High Priest - Kohen Gadol, matzah, meal offering, Passover - Pesach

The Meal Offering of the Kohen Gadol

April 9, 2025March 26, 2012

Parshat Tzav 5772
When the Torah writes about sacrifices, what’s the first thing you think of?

How many of you said, “A cracker”?

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Categories Vayikra - Leviticus, Yom Tov - Festivals Tags High Priest - Kohen Gadol, matzah, meal offering, Passover - Pesach

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