Torah Tidbits

24 May 2012 / 3 Sivan 5772
Issue 0902
Issue 902 - Tzav, HaGadol, Pesach, Shmini 5770
March 25, 2010

Word of the Month

Word of the Month - Pesach

[Last op for KL - Seder night]

There is great emphasis in the Torah and in Seder practice of the fact that we went out of Egypt in the SPRING, B’CHODESH HA’AVIV. Aside from the well-known concept of Spring representing rebirth after the dead of winter, corresponding to the (re)birth of the Nation after the death-like conditions in Egypt, there is this (from R’ Eliyahu Ki Tov): The deity of Egypt was the Ram, Zodiac sign of Nissan. Par’o remained stubborn throughout the plagues, waiting for his deity’s help in the Spring month. G-d brought the ultimate and most devastating of the plagues at the height (full moon) of that very month.

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