Torah for Pesach

Torah for Pesach

Lectures and Essays for Pesach and the Omer

Lectures:

Transcending Time

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/791150/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Transcending_Time

Torah Readings for Pesach
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/811555/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Torah_Readings_for_Pesach

The Evolving Haggada 

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/811551/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Evolving_Haggada

Crossing the Sea; a people divided

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/788832/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Crossing_the_Sea;_a_people_divided

The wickedness of the wicked son; a textual analysis

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/788592/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_wickedness_of_the_wicked_son;_a_textual_analysis

Parshat Bshalach According to the Vilna Gaon

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/771877/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Parshat_Bshalach_According_to_the_Vilna_Gaon

Parshat Bo - Did Leaving Egypt Include Deception?

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768778/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Parshat_Bo_-_Did_Leaving_Egypt_Include_Deception

Rebbi Yehuda gave Simanim

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768261/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Rebbi_Yehuda_gave_Simanim

Around Midnight

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768265/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Around_Midnight

The Plague of "Frogs" and Kiddush Hashem

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768099/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Plague_of_'Frogs'_and_Kiddush_Hashem_

The Haftorah for Vaera - the exile of Knowledge

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768102/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Haftorah_for_Vaera_-_the_exile_of_Knowledge

The Four Expression of Redemption and the Brit Bein Habitarim

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768103/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_four_Expression_of_Redemption_and_the_Brit_Bein_Habitarim

The Omer - Linking Pesach and Shavuot

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/760375/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Omer_-_Linking_Pesach_and_Shavuot

Pesach - Four Sons - Four Questions

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759364/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Pesach_-_Four_Sons_-_Four_Questions

Pesach matzah maror; biblical antecedents.

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759366/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Pesach_matzah_maror;_biblical_antecedents

The Redeemers

Those who helped the Jews leave Egypt - including the righteous women and Moshe.

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/827056/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Redeemers

Miracles and Song

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/828113/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Miracles_and_Song

Eclipsing the Sun God

The political and theological significance of the plagues

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/827720/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Eclipsing_the_Sun_God

The Moment of Freedom

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/827736/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Moment_of_Freedom

Kitavo -bikurim and history

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/748187/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Kitavo_-bikurim_and_history

The Idea of Counting

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/774309/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Idea_of_Counting

The Exodus and Elusive Perfection

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/768101/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Exodus_and_Elusive_Perfection#

The Leadership Of Moshe

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=394

Shmot - a Brief Overview What Is FREEDOM

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=404

Parshat Shmot / A Sign Of Redemption

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=541

Knowledge In Exile

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=366

The Staff

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=400

Parshat Vaeira / Deserving Freedom (Why did things need to get worse before they got better - before leaving Egypt. The Role of Am Yisrael in the Exodus)

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=543

Parshat Bo / Polemic Against Egyptian Beliefs

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=375

Parshat Bo / Transcending Time Space And Matter

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=401

Parshat Beshalach / Pharaoh's Responses to the Plagues

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=545

Did we Leave Egypt too Soon

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=35

Matzah of Lot

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=38

Seder Night

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=46

Shira

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=47

Losing Our Religion

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/827422/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Losing_Our_Religion

Parshat Hachodesh

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759365/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/tazria-Parshat_Hachodesh

Pesach

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=44

Stringencies on Pesach (good or bad?)

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759080/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Stringencies_on_Pesach_(good_or_bad)

Sale of Chametz - "Legal Fiction"?

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/773777/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Sale_of_Chametz_-_'Legal_Fiction'

Mourning of the Omer

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/760367/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Mourning_of_the_Omer

The Law of Chadosh in the Diaspora

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752069/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/The_Law_of_Chadosh_in_the_Diaspora

One or two days Yom Tov for visitors to Israel?

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/748708/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/one_or_two_days_Yom_Tov_for_visitors_to_Israel

Chametz (not) fit for man and dog

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/811164/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%A5_%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D

חייב אדם לעסוק בהלכות הפסח כל הלילה

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/791351/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A7_%D7%91%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97_%D7%9B%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94

Essays

Of Matzot and Mitzvot

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48965136.html

Shabbat HaGadol

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html

Collecting Straw

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2010/01/parshat-shmot-5770-collecting-straw.html

The Fifth Cup

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2010/01/parshat-vaera-5770-fifth-cup.html

Frogs

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2009/01/vaera-5769-frogs.html

Pharaoh's Heart

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48937417.html

Around Midnight

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/Around-Midnight.html

Time for Freedom

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48910302.html

The First Born

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48937697.html

Rabbi Yehuda gave them Signs

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2009/01/parshat-bo-5769-rav-yehuda-gave-them.html

The Eleventh Plague

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48960031.html

The Wicked Son in the Passover Haggadah

 http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2009/04/wicked-son-in-passover-haggadah.html

A New Book, An Old Story - Parshat Shmot

http://echoesofeden.rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_shmot_a_new_book_an_old_story

Pharaoh's Conundrum - Parshat VaEra

http://echoesofeden.rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_vaera_5774_pharaohs_conundrum

  

The Dignity of Mitzvot - Parshat Bo

http://echoesofeden.rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_bo_5774_the_dignity_of_mitzvot

The Long Shortcut - Parshat B'Shalach

http://echoesofeden.rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_bshalach_the_long_shortcut

Parashat B'shalach - Winds of Salvation

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/parashat-bshalach-winds-of-salvation.html

Parashat Shmot 5775 Redemption Song

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/parashat-shmot-5775-redemption-song.html

Parashat Bo 5775 It’s the Children

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/parashat-bo-5775-its-children.html

Haggadah based on the teachings of Rav Soloveitchik

http://www.slideshare.net/arikahn1/ss-17375163

Regarding Chametz and Kitniot in Israel on Shabbat Isru Chag

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2012/04/regarding-chametz-and-kitniot-in-israel.html