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Monthly Archives: י״ז בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (March 30, 2021)

A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Pesach (and matzah and maror)

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי״ז בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (March 30, 2021)

Moadim l’simcha! This Passover Tuesday, we’re proud to share a tidbit of Torah from one of the tutors who’s been with us the longest, learning with a number of long-term and new students. We read in the Haggadah that Rabban Gamliel says we must explain three things: the korban pesach, matzah, and maror. The Bnei…

A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Passover Preparation (not the cleaning kind)

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (March 23, 2021)

Preparing for Passover? This Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit might help:   An adult student has been learning the tenth chapter of Gemara Pesachim. The first mishna teaches that one should not start a meal late in the day on Erev Pesach. The Gemara notes that this halacha actually applies to all holidays and Shabbat – so…

A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Free Will in Egypt

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphג׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (March 16, 2021)

The upcoming holiday of Pesach celebrates the end of an extended period of slavery that had been foretold to Avraham: “Your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will enslave them and afflict them for 400 years. And I will also judge the nation that they will serve, and…

A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Moshe’s Qualifications to Lead

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphכ״ה באדר ה׳תשפ״א (March 9, 2021)

While learning Pirkei Avot, a pre-teen TorahTutors student and her tutor noticed something that reminded them of something they’d learned not long before in the weekly parsha. (It’s also relevant to the upcoming holiday of Pesach!) Avot 1:10 says, ”Sna et harabanut– Hate status.” Moshe put in a lot of effort trying to “convince” Hashem…

A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Hallel on Purim (nope) vs. Pesach (yup)

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (March 2, 2021)

On this post-Purim Tuesday: a TorahTutors Tidbit that looks back to Purim and ahead to Pesach.   One of several points of contrast between Purim and Pesach is the fact that Hallel is recited on Pesach but not on Purim. A preteen TorahTutors student studied the Talmudic discussion of this difference, found in Arakhin 10a-b.…

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