The seder night is jam packed with mitzvot and traditions that mainly focus on eating and speaking. Eating the Pesach sacrifice, matza, maror, karpas, and charoset; along with drinking 4 cups of wine.

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, ...

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Many years ago at a Passover Seder, one of the guests raised a difficulty in the Torah’s account of the Exodus that he felt was insolvable. None of the answers offered to him satisfied him. Over the ...

When it comes to matzo, Chicago chef Laura Frankel says hers is a love-hate relationship. “Matza and I are frenemies,” she says of the unleavened bread. “On one hand, matza is a food you want to be ...