INCREASING TIES
It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah: Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020 –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not written for Pesach night, nor is it an independent composition. Instead, it was part seven of the poem אוֹנֵי פִטְרֵי רַחֲמָתָיִם (The Vigor of the Openers of Wombs),” composed by Yannai (late 5th–early 6th cent. C.E.), the first Hebrew poet to use end-rhyme and to sign his works with a signature acrostic.
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America’s Favorite Prophet: Stuart Halpern, Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023
Let My People Go—For What?: Shalom Carmy, First Things, April 2023
How We Got Here: An Intellectual History: Edward Rothstein, Sapir Journal, Vol. 7, Autumn 2022
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2023 (US-Israel shared values): Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report, Apr. 3, 2023 — The Passover Exodus, in general, and the Mosaic legacy, in particular, inspired the US Founding Fathers’ rebellion against the monarchy, which evolved into a concept of non-revengeful, non-imperialistic and anti-monarchy liberty, limited (non-tyrannical) government, separation of powers among three co-equal branches of government and the Federalist system, in general.
Podcast: Joshua Berman on Traveling to Biblical Egypt: Joshua Berman and Tikvah Podcast, Mosaic Magazine, Jan. 27, 2023 — To understand the inner life of the biblical world, one must look to Egypt.
WATCH: Pesach: Writing a Story upon a People: Ohr Publishing, YouTube, Mar. 26, 2023 — A drasha from Rav Soloveitchik. Presented in the 1950’s.
Passover 2002: A Tale of Two Massacres: Chaim Lax, Algemeiner, Mar. 31, 2023 — This Passover marks 21 years since the bombing of the Park Hotel in Netanya, as well as the Battle of Jenin.