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Aaron Levy

Tora

There is an interesting relationship between the Qorban Pesaḥ (pascal sacrifice) and the Bayiṯ (house) in the Tora. Among the laws regarding qorban pesaḥ, we find that there must be one lamb per bayiṯ, the Israelites must mark their battim (houses) with the lamb’s blood, the lamb must be eaten in the bayiṯ, and it…

March 29, 2018 Continue to read
Perasha

Pesaḥ is around the corner and one of the sections of the Haggaḏa is ‘Moṣi Maṣa’ (lit. taking out [the] maṣa [to be eaten]). The great Moroccan ḥakham Yoseph Messas homiletically interprets this phrase by playing on the double meaning of maṣa. Maṣa, to most people, means the unleavened bread normally eaten on Pesaḥ, but maṣa…

March 23, 2018 Continue to read

About Author

Aaron Levy

Contributor to haSepharadi.com. Aaron graduated Cornell University with a Bachelor’s in Operations Research and works as a business manager at Capital One Bank, living in Manhattan. Of Kurdish background, he grew up in a Greek and Turkish synagogue with Syrian ḥazzanim and Tora readers. He also served on the board of Westside Sephardic Synagogue (2015-2017), a predominantly North African minyan. He is passionate about Sephardic culture, Sephardic intellectual achievements, linguistics and grammar. Fluent in Hebrew and English, he is proficient in Spanish and Arabic.

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