Celebrate Shabbat HaGadol by learning more about Passover traditions and rituals.
There’s also a significance to the name Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Shabbat, in that it focuses both on God’s presence in perhaps a distant way as the Creator of heaven and earth and also in a more intimate way as the Redeemer in Egypt.
To better appreciate the significance this duality that should be pondered on Shabbat HaGadol, read this illuminating analysis entitled: “Understanding Shabbat HaGadol” from Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald’s Torah message for Tzav 5781-2021 Out of respect for Shabbat, please consider printing it on Friday afternoon if you plan to read it on Shabbat.
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