Read.

INTERNALIZATION After washing our hands, we begin the process of internalizing the message of spiritual freedom by eating the Matzah....

REACHING HIGHER Before we partake of the Matzah, we wash our hands a second time. If washing the first time...

EMPATHY The tone has been set.  We know that we are holy. We know that we have the need to...

SETTING THE TONE The fourth—yet still preliminary—step is the breaking of the middle Matzah. We break the Matzah at this...

DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT The third step, Karpas, consists of dipping a vegetable in salt water.  (Customs vary as to which...

Washing the Hands SIMPLE REASON After reciting the Kiddush, we wash our hands before dipping a vegetable in salt water,...

A SPECIAL KIDDUSH We open each Seder with recitation of the Kiddush, just as we do at the onset of...

ORDER AND JEWISH EDUCATION The Seder, as its name suggests, is an orderly ritual; so orderly, in fact, that even...

Ethics is what distinguishes the symphonic world of order from the cacophonous world  of chaos. Whatever ethical system one follows,...

With the explosion of scientific discoveries in all fields, particularly in the medical sphere, in recent times, it behooves us...

Every transition from one level to another, by definition, consists of both the level from which one is graduating, as...

Where was G-d during the Holocaust? How could let it happen? How can one believe in a G-d that allowed...

The Three Questions One of the problems that plagues the Jewish community (and, in truth, all of society) is division...

The Torah requires that a woman’s hair be covered. What is so wrong with it being exposed? And why is...

In brief, the question about marriage to a minor is evidence of a selective of knowledge of the Talmud, and...

The Call of the Shofar! The tragic events of the few weeks are a clarion call – or, in the...