PESAH: Understanding the prohibition of owning Hamets during Pesah

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בל יראה בל ימצא השבתת חמץ One of the elements that makes the prohibition of  Hamets so unique is that, unlike any other forbidden foods, it includes the...

Mekhirat Chamets: Selling your Chamets This Coming Pesach

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In our days, most communities—Ashkenazi and Sephardic—arrange a Chamets-selling system in which the community members empower the rabbi to sell their Chamets. This procedure is...

PESAH: Invisible Hamets

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הגעלת כלים During Pesah, we do not use the same cooking utensils or tableware that we use year-round for Hamets.  Why? Because although the utensils...

El artículo del rab Eliyahu Zini sobre la venta del Jamets

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Algunas Objeciones A La Venta Del Jamets. En mi opinión, uno de los textos mejor documentados que nos permite comprender los       detalles y el debate...

PESAH: What is and what is not Hamets?

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איסור אכילת חמץ HAMETS During Pesah we are not allowed to eat, benefit from or even posses anything Hamets. But, what exactly is Hamets? Hamets (or...

PESAH: Different types of Matsa

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  מצות אכילת מצה Matsa (in English "Matzah") is a special unleavened bread made of a flat dough. The dough is prepared with flour and water,...

PESAH: Why Matsa?

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  We explained yesterday that one of the three positive Biblical Mitsvot of Pesah is eating Matsa.  Now, why do we eat Matsa? There are...

THE EIGHT MITSVOT OF PESAH

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Pesah is less than a month away. The first night will be celebrated B'H Friday April 3rd, 2015.  Pesah's laws and customs are so...

TEHILIM # 10: Morality without God?

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In this Psalms David HaMelekh touches upon a very important and relevant question, even (or specially) for today's society. Can you be a moral...

Rabbi David ben Zimra (1479-1573) and the Ethiopian Jews

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Rabbi David ben Zimra, known as the Radbaz (רדב"ז aka Ridbaz) was born in Spain in 1479. At the age of 13, when the...