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Eighth Day: Gebrokts and Moshiach's Feast
Following a tradition instituted by the Baal Shem Tov, Jews all over the world celebrate the waning hours of Passover with Moshiach’s Meal
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On transforming the belief in Moshiach into reality.
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How the Passover time machine allows us to experience the past—and the future
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Last Days of Passover
Memory is a victory over time; but to truly free ourselves of time's tyranny requires the ability to not only relive the past, but also remember the future
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The eighth day of Passover
On the final day of Passover (Acharon Shel Pesach), there is a custom to partake of a festive celebration known as Moshiach’s Seudah (the meal of Moshiach). What is the source and meaning of this custom, and what is its connection to the final redemption that will come about through Moshiach?
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The message of Seudat Moshiach
My husband and I had been married for three and a half years, and we desperately wanted children . . .
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If chametz is so intolerable, why do we eat it all year round? And what is the significance of the unexpected appearance of “wet matzah” on the eighth day of Passover?
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Many communities, chassidic ones in particular, have the custom to refrain from eating “gebrokts”—matzah that came in contact with water after it was fully baked—on the first seven days of Passover . . .
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simple reason is that all the days of Pesach are one long holiday. Since we can
only recite Shehechiyanu over a new holiday—and the last days are not a
new holiday—the prayer is included in the Shehechiyanu of the first days.
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The Last Days of Passover
But all that wonder has yet to materialize. Our world is
still one with war, with poverty, malice, still a world in exile from its
essential, G‑dly nature.
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With suggested readings for each of the four cups
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Here's a thought that can pick you up, and even has the power to pick up the whole world.
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Who in modern society doesn’t suffer from anxiety of some sort?
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In G-d’s eyes, every single Jewish person is integral to the redemptive process. It’s as simple as that.
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With suggested readings for each of the four cups
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