The Most Important Meal
Across the country, school breakfast programs are offered in order to ensure that students will be properly nourished and capable of putting forth their best efforts during their day of…
The Most Important Meal
Across the country, school breakfast programs are offered in order to ensure that students will be properly nourished and capable of putting forth their best efforts during their day of…
Make Your Last Chametz Meal for the Week Count!
Many have the custom to eat their last chametz meal early in the morning of the eve of Pesach. Be careful to clean up so that not even the slightest trace of chametz can be found.
Last Meal
Before the fast begins at sundown, eat seudah hamafseket, a simple (1 cooked food) meal before the fast. (Many have the custom of eating hard boiled eggs and bread dipped in…
Make Your Last Chametz Meal for the Week Count
If you have a custom to eat a breakfast meal filled with chametz, be sure to gather all remaining crumbs so they may be removed and burned right away.
The Meal of the Mourners
Burying one’s loved one is a traumatic experience that not only highlights one’s personal loss but also reminds one of his/her own mortality. Following a Jewish funeral, it is customary…
Tzav–Passover 1 5778-2018
“Making Holiness Contagious” by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In this week’s parasha, parashat Tzav, we are reintroduced to the laws of the Mincha, מִנְחָה , the meal offering, that were…
Special Meal
In honor of Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh, enjoy a special treat tonight.
A Not Quite Festival Meal
Tomorrow, prepare a special lunch in honor of Hoshana Rabbah.
Prepare for the Final Celebratory Meal of Passover
The seventh day of Passover, which begins tonight, recalls the splitting of the Sea of Reeds and the Shira (Song of Crossing the Sea), which is tomorrow’s Torah reading. We will read Shir…