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Experience an inspiring evening full of insights, song and of course a full gourmet Passover Seder meal.
Congregation Toras Chaim will hold the 2010 CTC Community Pesach Seder, Monday, March 28 at 8:45 PM, in the shul, catered by our own Ehoud Wilson, and conducted by Rabbi Yaakov Rich.
Prices: Adults $50 and …Read the full story »
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Join Rabbi Yaakov Rich for two classes aimed at helping us all prepare for the upcoming holiday of Pesach.
Sunday, March 14, 8:00-9:00 PM: Kashering Utensils & Preparing Our Homes for Pesach
Sunday, March 21, 8:00-9:00 PM: Step-By-Step Through the Seder
For men and women. No charge. All classes will be at Congregation Toras Chaim, …Read the full story »
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For Those Already Married, and Singles Looking to Get Married
The sacred institution of marriage is seriously threatened in our times. Shocking statistics about divorce rates combine with countless reports about unhappy marriages and unstable families to paint a sad picture of what happens after the mazel tovs are said.
A major …Read the full story »
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Mincah: 6:00 PM
Seudas HaMafsekes (bread with an egg dipped in ash & water) at home on the floor (we don’t sit together nor bentch with a mezuman, i.e. three men together)
Fast Begins: 8:27 PM
Maariv / Reading of Eichah (Lamentations) / Reading of Kinnos with explanations: 9:05 PM
Thursday, …Read the full story »
Berachos, Mishna Yomis, Torah »
CHAPTER 7 MISHNAH 2
Women, slaves and minors – are excluded from Zimmun. What quantity for Zimmun? An olive’s size. R. Yehudah says: The size of an egg.
CHAPTER 7 MISHNAH 3
How do they say the common Grace? When three, the one says:
“Let us bless. When there are three besides him, he …Read the full story »
Berachos, Mishna Yomis, Torah »
CHAPTER 6 MISHNAH 8
If he ate figs, grapes or pomegranates – he recites thereafter “Three Blessings”, so said Rabban Gamliel. The Sages say: One blessing, the substance of the three; Rabbi Akiva says: Even if he ate boiled vegetables only for his meal, he recites thereafter Three Blessings. If he …Read the full story »