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Virtual Whiskey Tasting & Havdalah (Zoom)

Saturday, March 28, 2020 3 Nisan 5780

7:30 PM
 
Find the Havdalah melody below:
 

Whiskey Tasting - 7:30 PM to 8:18 PM -- it's simple, pour your drink and talk about it; I will have the Whiskey Bible at my side.

Havdalah - 8:20; actual blessings - around 8:30

Before Saturday, please e-mail Judah Flum your choice of discussion rooms for after the Havdalah service:

  • I need to talk - this one is obvious
  • Kids - kids only
  • Talk About The Kids
  • Talk About TI
  • Whiskey and Other Spirits and Cocktails
  • Politics and Current Events

 

Rabbi's discussion:

Our Haggadah

Tosefta Pesachim chapter 10

 

If the Blessed Holy One had not brought forth our ancestors from Egypt, then we, and our children, and our children’s children would still be enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt.

11. One does not have anything after the afikoman. Like nuts, dates, or seeds.

Context part 1

Therefore, even if we were all learned and wise, all elders and fully versed in the Torah, it would be our duty nonetheless to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. And the more one dwells on the Exodus from Egypt, the more is one to be praised.

A person is obliged to study the laws of Pesach all night, even if it’s just him and his son, or just himself alone, or just him and his student.

Context part 2

A tale is told concerning Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, Rabbi Akiva, and Rabbi Tarfon

12. A tale is told concerning Rabban Gamliel and some elders

Who

who were reclining [מסובין, i.e. dining] in B’nei Brak.

who were reclining [מסובין, i.e. dining] in the house of Baitos ben Zonin, in Lod.

Where

They were telling the story of the Exodus of Egypt

They were studying the laws of Pesach

What

all that night[כל אותו הלילה]

the whole night [כל הלילה],

When

Until their students came and said to them: “It’s time for the morning Sh’ma”!

until the rooster crowed.

Until

 

They removed [the tables] from before them, and they got up and went to the study house.

Then what

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