Pesach

Once a year the Jewish custom is to say a special blessing on flowering fruit trees...

"An Earth Covenant Perspective on Human Rights" taught at the first Rabbis for Human Rights Conference in NYC.

At Yachats we split the middle matsah, inviting the stranger to share a fragment of broken matsah that wouldn't be even enough for one.

The Besh"t on the Pesach sacrifice and raising the holy sparks.

There's one important symbol that we don't explain or mention even once in the Passover seder: the charoset. Why?

The Beit Midrash Ruach v'Lev session on "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Haggadah"

A nigun for the second Psalm of Hallel, B'tseit Yisrael, "When Israel went out of Egypt..."

A dance nigun to replace the tune most folks know for "V'hi She'amdah".

This nigun is sung for hours on the second night of Pesach after the seder in the Stolner shul in Brooklyn.