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"Your Time for Love Has Arrived"
A Literary Analysis of Shir Ha-shirim
By Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein
Each year, as we read the magnificent love story of Shir Ha-shirim, we encounter the sacred flames of passion between the Jewish people and the Almighty expressed in the work. Whose heart wouldn't be stirred by the depiction of the Dod (male lover), symbolizing God, knocking at his beloved's door, begging her to let him in, or by the riveting drama of the Re'aya (female lover) - the Jewish people - returning to her beloved as the mutual bonds of affection are restored? Read more
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Is There a Mitzva to Eat Matza the Entire Holiday of Pesach?
By Rav Binyamin Tabory
The Torah in Parashat Bo (Shemot 12:8) commands eating the korban pesach (the paschal lamb) together with matza and marror. Inasmuch as today we cannot offer sacrifices, including the korban pesach, there is no longer a biblical obligation to eat marror. However, Rava maintained that the obligation of matza has an independent status as a biblical requirement...
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Matza: Symbol of Servitude, Redemption, or Both?
By Rav Yair Kahn
There are many halakhic indicators, as we shall see, that matza is both the bread of servitude and the bread of redemption. Why are there two foods to symbolize the redemption – matza and the Pesach offering; and why are there two foods to symbolize the servitude – matza and maror? Furthermore, how is it possible that matza can symbolize these two opposites?
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