Passover
Written by the Chafetz Chaim's son-in-law, Rav Aharon ben Rav Yosef HaKohen, Sefer Avodas HaKorbanos offers a clear exposition of the avodah in the Beis HaMikdash, including all the karbanos (offerings). This classic is available for the first time with an elucidated English translation, including a brief explanatory introduction to each paragraph, notes and diagrams that make the beauty of the Beis HaMikdash services accessible to all of us. Also includes fascinating and detailed section on Avodas Yom Kippur!
Make Your Own Passover Seder gives you the information needed to create a customized seder that expresses your and your family's particular spiritual, political, and personal values and sentiments. No matter what your religious persuasion3/4Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, or not Jewish at all3/4this guide provides a wise and learned approach that is filled with warmth and creativity. Make Your Own Passover Seder offers new ideas and myriad options based on the authors' own experience and hundreds of other examples of seders throughout the world.
This fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated books translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into twenty-three languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countries where the languages are spoken.
The recitation of the Four Questions at the beginning of the Passover seder by the youngest participant is one of the highlights of the evening and captures its very essence: to keep the memory of the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian slavery alive in our minds, and to teach our children about their heritage and history. This unique volume covers a variety of languages of the Jewish Diaspora from French to Farsi, from Latin to Ladino, from Amharic to Afrikaans, from Yiddish to Swedish to Chinese. For each language a translation (and, where necessary, a transliteration) of the Four Questions is provided, accompanied by a brief overview of Jewish life and culture among the speakers of the language, and an illustrations of either historical or contemporary interest.
The perfect seder gift, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" "is also an excellent introduction to Jewish history in the Diaspora for young and old alike."
The recitation of the Four Questions at the beginning of the Passover seder by the youngest participant is one of the highlights of the evening and captures its very essence: to keep the memory of the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian slavery alive in our minds, and to teach our children about their heritage and history. This unique volume covers a variety of languages of the Jewish Diaspora from French to Farsi, from Latin to Ladino, from Amharic to Afrikaans, from Yiddish to Swedish to Chinese. For each language a translation (and, where necessary, a transliteration) of the Four Questions is provided, accompanied by a brief overview of Jewish life and culture among the speakers of the language, and an illustrations of either historical or contemporary interest.
The perfect seder gift, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" "is also an excellent introduction to Jewish history in the Diaspora for young and old alike."
