Rabbi Elie Kaunfer: What Does it Mean to Say: ‘All Who are Hungry Come and Eat’?
We start our Seder with this phrase, but how practical is it, when taken literally? Literal interpretation changed to mean ‘feeding the poor in advance…
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We start our Seder with this phrase, but how practical is it, when taken literally? Literal interpretation changed to mean ‘feeding the poor in advance…
Rabbi Sacks carries over the theme of speech in his drash on Metzora. Intriguingly, the Talmud doesn’t address the corollary, lashon tov. Shouldn’t it be a mitzvah…