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Passover (first day) (Exodus 12:21-51)

The Connection between Passover and Tisha B'Av

What is the antidote to gratuitous hatred?

The answer comes in a surprising connection

between Pesach and Tisha B'Av. The Rema

in the Shulchan Aruch mentions that the

evening of first night Seder will always be

the same day of the week as the opening eve-

ning of the following Tisha B'Av. And that's

the reason, he says, why just before the fast

of Tisha B'Av and also on our Seder tables

we have a hardboiled egg to eat. What then

is the deeper connection between Pesach and

Tisha B'Av? The Rema in the Shulchan

Aruch mentions that the evening of first

night Seder will always be the same day of

the week as the opening evening of the fol-

lowing Tisha B'Av. And that's the reason, he

says, why just before the fast of Tisha B'Av

and also on our Seder tables we have a hard-

boiled egg to eat. What then is the deeper

connection between Pesach and Tisha B'Av?

In the Mah Nishtana we declare: 'She'b'chol

ha'leylot ein anu matbilin afilu pa'am achat -

On all other nights we don't even dip once.'

'Aval ha'layla ha'ze shtei pa'amim - but on

this night we dip twice.' The Ben Ish Chai of

19th century Baghdad gives a wonder-

ful peirush: he says that these two dippings

at the Seder table come to remind us of the

very first two dippings on record. Kar-

pas comes to remind us of when Joseph's

brothers dipped his coat in blood

and Charoset comes to remind us of the sec-

ond dipping on record - the mitzvah given in

the book of Shemot to the Israelites to take a

bundle of hyssop, to dip it into blood and

then to smear it onto the doorposts and the

lintels to protect them from The Plague of

the Firstborn. The Ben Ish Chai said that

that first dipping in Sefer Bereishit repre-

sents Sinat Chinam. It was the causeless ha-

tred that Joseph's brothers had for him that

prompted them to engage in their attempted

fratricide. The second dipping in the book

of Shemot is all about unity. You see, the To-

rah says 'U'lekachtem agudat ezov, take a

bundle of hyssop; that

term aguda represents a bonded entity

which is a symbol of the unity of the Jewish

people at that time. Therefore, says the Ben

Ish Chai, the second dipping is an antidote

to the first. It is only through Jewish unity

that we will be able to overcome the totally

unnecessary and tragic friction of Sinat

Chinam. Our exile into Egypt started

with Sinat Chinam and we were redeemed

there from through Ahavat Chinam -

through causeless love, through unity within

our ranks. Similarly, our exile out of Jerusa-

lem in the year seventy with the destruction

of the second temple happened because

of Sinat Chinamand please God, our ulti-

mate redemption will come through the

unity of our people. We see from this

that Mah Nishtana isn't just a lovely little

song that children sing, rather, it provides

for us the strong connection between Pesach

and Tisha B'Av and more significantly, it

shows us what the antidote to Sinat

Chinam is and gives us the key to our ulti-

mate redemption - may it happen speedily in

our time. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Passover:

Yizkor

Saturday,

April 7

11:00 AM

Shabbat Schedule 3/31, 4/7

8:50 am Shacharit

9:45 am Torah Service

10:30 am Youth Programs Begin

10:50 am Sermon w/Rabbi Wyne

11:00 am 4/7 Yizkor

11:20 am Mussaf Service

12:00 pm Community Kiddush

4/1, Coed Class with Stacey Goldman

“Fur Coats and Fires:

Models of Biblical Leadership”

6:00 pm

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Young Israel

Aish have been

sent the

“Yizkor” form.

The form is also

available

in the shul

hallway.

4/7, 6:00 pm, Hebrew Class

with Rabbi Orlowek,

4/7, 6:00 pm Women's Class

with Rabbi Wyne

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Shabbat 3/31 and Sunday 4/1

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Friday 4/6 sponsored by Dr. Stuart and Marianna Engel

in memory of Marianna's mother, Leah bas Shmuel Yosef.

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Mazal’s mother and Simon’s mother-in-law,

Shoshana bat Levi, an amazing,

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Rachamim Look’s mother

Phibi bat Miriam V’David

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mother of Valerie Dubin

Shmuel ben Shalom Halevi, 19 Nisan

father of Rabbi Michael Laxmeter

Lorraine Elizabeth Taylor, 23 Nisan

mother of Dawn Brown

Chaya Shanee bas 26 Nisan

Velvel Chaim V’Batya,

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Ronald Tennenbaum, 26 Nisan

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"I shall go through Egypt on this night, and I shall strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man

to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I shall mete out punishment - I am God. The blood shall be a

sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood I shall pass over you; there shall not be a

plague of destruction upon you when I strike in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:12-13) The plague of the

firstborn differs from the rest of the plagues. The Torah issues no instructions about doing anything

to avoid Jewish vulnerability for any of the first nine plagues, but in the case of the tenth, the smiting

of the firstborn, it provides an elaborate ceremony involving the offering of the Passover sacrifice and

smearing the blood on the doors. The very name Passover is taken from these instructions of avoid-

ance. We celebrate the fact that God passed over the houses in which the Jews lived when He smote

the firstborn. In fact we are commanded to redeem our own firstborn because God saved them from

the tenth plague. God sanctified the Jewish firstborn onto Him by sparing their lives when He killed

the Egyptian firstborn. The Maharal (The Book of Power, Ch.60) addresses the issue. He states that

there was no need for ceremonies of avoidance concerning the first nine plagues because Israel was

not vulnerable to them. We were vulnerable only to the tenth plague. The world had to change for us

to escape its effects. We shall attempt to plumb the depths of his ideas in this essay.

Rabbi Noson Weisz

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Passover Insights from aish.com

This is the bread of our affliction. All who are 'hungry' (physically), come and eat. All who

'need' (spiritually, emotionally), come and celebrate. "With these words, we begin the Passover

Hagaddah; we take ourselves back to 1313 BCE and begin the transition from slavery to freedom.

One possible reason that the Rabbis started the Seder this way is to teach us that through sharing

with others, both on a spiritual and physical level, we can change ourselves. A person who can't

share of his blessings, his time, or himself is really a slave to those things. True freedom is to un-

derstand that the only meaningful choices we have in life is the ability to decide what to do with

what the Almighty has given us. This could be why the Rabbis taught that if someone studies To-

rah and doesn't share it, he has missed the whole point. If someone only accumulates and cannot

share, everything he owns is the bread of his affliction. He becomes a slave to himself. One of the

lessons we learned in Egypt was how to be concerned with the plight of those around us. As we

celebrate our freedom, we should take the time to ensure that all who "need" and all who are

"hungry" are taken care of. It is our chance to begin our journey from slavery to freedom, giving

us the opportunity to make meaningful choices in life, to be a conduit through which God's

blessings can enter the world. Rabbi Ron Jawary