Torah for Pesach

Torah for Pesach

Lectures and Essays for Pesach and the Omer

New Essay:

In Search of Chametz:

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/in-search-of-chametz.html

Lectures:

Machine Matzot - Some History, Some Halacha

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/876047/rabbi-ari-kahn/machine-matzot-some-history-some-halacha/

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

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-/

Tumah, Hyssop and the Korban Pesach

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/854863/rabbi-ari-kahn/tumah-hyssop-and-the-korban-pesach/

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/

Sunset of the Regime - Leaving Egypt

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/848724/rabbi-ari-kahn/sunset-of-the-regime-leaving-egypt/

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

Shmot - a Brief Overview What Is FREEDOM

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

Parshat Shmot / A Sign Of Redemption

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

Knowledge In Exile

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

The Staff

http://archive.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://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/802698/rabbi-ari-kahn/deserving-freedom/

Parshat Bo / Polemic Against Egyptian Beliefs

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

Parshat Bo / Transcending Time

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/791150/rabbi-ari-kahn/transcending-time/

Parshat Beshalach / Pharaoh's Responses to the Plagues

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

Did we Leave Egypt too Soon

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

Matzah of Lot

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

Seder Night

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

Shira

http://archive.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://archive.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-/

Leaving Egypt with the Vilna Gaon and Messiach ben Yosef –

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/849059/rabbi-ari-kahn/leaving-egypt-with-the-vilna-gaon-and-messiach-ben-yosef-/

From Egypt to Sinai

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/850415/rabbi-ari-kahn/from-egypt-to-sinai/

The Idea of Counting

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/774309/rabbi-ari-kahn/the-idea-of-counting/

Mourning of the Omer

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/760367/rabbi-ari-kahn/mourning-of-the-omer/

The Omer - Linking Pesach and Shavuot

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

The Dual Aspects of Sefirat Haomer

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/792809/rabbi-ari-kahn/the-dual-aspects-of-sefirat-haomer/

המכות של חושך

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/849067/rabbi-ari-kahn/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9A/

Raising Moshe

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/848007/rabbi-ari-kahn/raising-moshe/

You Say You Want a Devolution

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/848189/rabbi-ari-kahn/you-say-you-want-a-devolution/

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

Cleaning books for Pesach

http://archive.rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=568

Essays

 Devolution

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2016/01/echoes-of-eden-rabbi-ari-kahn-parashat.html

Total Eclipse

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2016/01/parashat-bo-total-eclipse.html

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

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/blog-post_8.html

Regarding Chametz and Kitniot in Israel on Shabbat Isru Chag

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

Sources for 21 Pesach Shiurim:

חמץ ומצה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/blog-post.html

הלילה הזה כולו צלי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_56.html

חד גדיה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_23.html

"From Arami Oved Avi to Chad Gadya - a mystical journey led by the Vilna Gaon"

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/fromarami-oved-avi-to-chad-gadya.html

המצה של לוט

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_26.html

אין ביעור חמץ אלא שריפה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_7.html

אלו קרבנו לפני הר סיני ולא נתן לנו את התורה דייני

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_4.html

ארבע כוסות

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_90.html

פסח – הלכה, מנהג, וחומרה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_40.html

חייב אדם לעסוק בהלכות הפסח כל הלילה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_30.html

חישב את הקץ

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_91.html

חרוסת

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_9.html

כנגד ארבע בנים  

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_34.html

מַצָּה זוּ שֶׁאָנוּ אוֹכְלִים עַל שׁוּם מָה. עַל שׁוּם מה? -לֶחֶם עֹנִי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_44.html

מכירת חמץ

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_99.html

מתחיל בגנות ומסיים בשבח

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_3.html

(פֶּסַח,) מַצָּה, (וּמָרוֹר)

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_16.html

קטנית

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_74.html

חג הפסח עד חצות

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_31.html

שיר השירים עם ברכה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_54.html

ערב תבשילין, קיטניות וחמץ - הבט הלכתי ומחשבתי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_29.html

רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה זכירת וסיפור יציאת מצרים

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_27.html

1.     Transcending Time

2.     Torah Readings for Pesach
The Evolving Haggada 

3.     Crossing the Sea; a people divided

4.     The wickedness of the wicked son; a textual analysis

5.     Parshat Bshalach According to the Vilna Gaon

6.     Parshat Bo - Did Leaving Egypt Include Deception?

7.     Rebbi Yehuda gave Simanim

8.     Around Midnight

9.     The Plague of "Frogs" and Kiddush Hashem

10.  The Haftorah for Vaera - the exile of Knowledge

11.  The Four Expression of Redemption and the Brit Bein Habitarim

12.  Pesach - Four Sons - Four Questions

13.  Pesach matzah maror; biblical antecedents.

14.                  Tumah, Hyssop and the Korban Pesach

15.  The Redeemers

16.  Miracles and Song

17.  Eclipsing the Sun God

18.                  Sunset of the Regime - Leaving Egypt

19.  The Moment of Freedom

20.  Kitavo -bikurim and history

21.  The Exodus and Elusive Perfection

22.  The Leadership Of Moshe

23.  Shmot - a Brief Overview What Is FREEDOM

24.  Parshat Shmot / A Sign Of Redemption

25.  Knowledge In Exile

26.  The Staff

27.                  Deserving Freedom

28.  Polemic Against Egyptian Beliefs

29.                  Transcending Time

30.                  Pharaoh's Responses to the Plagues

31.  Did we Leave Egypt too Soon

32.  Matzah of Lot

33.  Seder Night

34.  Shira

35.  Losing Our Religion

36.  Parshat Hachodesh

37.  Pesach

38.  Stringencies on Pesach (good or bad?)

39.  Sale of Chametz - "Legal Fiction"?

40.                  Leaving Egypt with the Vilna Gaon and Messiach ben Yosef –

41.                  From Egypt to Sinai

42.  The Idea of Counting

43.  Mourning of the Omer

44.  The Omer - Linking Pesach and Shavuot

45.                  The Dual Aspects of Sefirat Haomer

46.                  המכות של חושך

47.                  Raising Moshe

48.                  You Say You Want a Devolution

49.  The Law of Chadosh in the Diaspora

50.  One or two days Yom Tov for visitors to Israel?

51.  Chametz (not) fit for man and dog

52.  חייב אדם לעסוק בהלכות הפסח כל הלילה

53.                  Cleaning books for Pesach

Essays

1.     Devolution

2.    Total Eclipse

3.     Of Matzot and Mitzvot

4.     Shabbat HaGadol

5.     Collecting Straw

6.     The Fifth Cup

7.     Frogs

8.     Pharaoh's Heart

9.     Around Midnight

10.  Time for Freedom

11.  The First Born

12.  Rabbi Yehuda gave them Signs

13.  The Eleventh Plague

14.  The Wicked Son in the Passover Haggadah

15.  A New Book, An Old Story - Parshat Shmot

16.  Pharaoh's Conundrum - Parshat VaEra

17.  The Dignity of Mitzvot - Parshat Bo

18.  The Long Shortcut - Parshat B'Shalach

19.  Parashat B'shalach - Winds of Salvation

20.  Parashat Shmot 5775 Redemption Song

21.  Parashat Bo 5775 It’s the Children

22.  Haggadah based on the teachings of Rav Soloveitchik

23.  Regarding Chametz and Kitniot in Israel on Shabbat Isru Chag