MEKHIRAT CHAMETS: When is OK to sell your Chamets?
Most communities, Ashkenazi and Sephardic, arrange a Hamets-selling system in which the community members empower the rabbi to sell their Hamets. This procedure is...
The Role of Women in the Exodus Story
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
The Sages wondered: how was it possible for the Jews to escape from Egypt? Being a slave in Egypt was like being...
Rules for the shib’a, the first seven days of mourning
The Abelim -the seven direct relatives who keep the mourning: father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister and spouse –are subject to certain limitations in...
The Challenges of Selling the Hamets
One of the best and most informed documents to learn all the details and debates around the modern selling of Hamets is a response...
The Eight Commandments Of Pesah
We are now going to review the Biblical Mitsvot of Pesah. That is, the original laws of this festival, from which all other details and...
Why should we fast tomorrow, and who should not fast?
כל עבדי המלך ועם מדינות המלך יודעים אשר כל איש ואשה אשר יבוא אל המלך אל החצר הפנימית אשר לא יקרא אחת דתו להמית
WHO...
Cross-dressing in Purim
לא יהיה כלי גבר על האשה ולא ילבש גבר שמלת אשה כי תועבת ה ‘ כל עושה אלה
Nowadays, many people tend to dress up...
ESTHER 6:12 What You Wish For Others…
יב וַיָּשָׁב מָרְדֳּכַי, אֶל-שַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶךְ; וְהָמָן נִדְחַף אֶל-בֵּיתוֹ, אָבֵל וַחֲפוּי רֹאשׁ
Chapter 6 of Megillat Esther tells us that after the first banquet that Queen Esther...
ESTHER 3:8. When All Jews Were Persian
The book of Esther (Megillat Esther) records one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the Jewish people. When Haman, the powerful...
Dates in Megillat Esther
מתוך התוכן :
בשנת 3 לאחשורוש
במשך 180 יום משתה לשרים ולפקידי המלכות ולאנשי הצבא
במשך 7 ימים
משתה לכל תושבי שושן הבירה .
בשנת 7 לאחשורוש
חודש טבת: אסתר נלקחה...
