Tag: Rav Hirsch


  • The Center We Lost — And the One We’re Waiting For

    When I was growing up, my family and my out-of-town cousins would always spend Pesach and the Seder at my grandparents’ home. It was tradition, but it was more than that. One house. One table. One shared world of jokes and songs that belonged to all of us. We looked forward to it all year.…

  • Yitzchak, Manischewitz, and the Truth About Mesorah

    If My Father Were Here Today… In Parshat Toldot, Yitzchak tries to continue Avraham’s path exactly. He digs the same wells. He gives them the same names. And when famine strikes, he prepares to do what Avraham did — go down to Mitzrayim. But Hashem stops him.“Al teired Mitzraymah. Gur ba’aretz hazot.” Ramban explains that…