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Eighth Day: Gebrokts and Moshiach's Feast
While itâs usually the Passover Seders that get the most attention, the rest of the eight-day holiday is special too and the last day certainly packs a punch!
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Following a tradition instituted by the Baal Shem Tov, Jews all over the world celebrate the waning hours of Passover with Moshiachâs 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 pastâand the future
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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 Moshiachâs 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 âwet matzahâ on the eighth day of Passover?
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Many communities, chassidic ones in particular, have the custom to refrain from eating âgebroktsââmatzah that came in contact with water after it was fully bakedâon 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 holidayâand the last days are not a
new holidayâthe 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, Gâdly 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 doesnât suffer from anxiety of some sort?
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In G-dâs eyes, every single Jewish person is integral to the redemptive process. Itâs as simple as that.
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