General and Jewish terms you'll want to know at this critical time.

Leavened versus unleavened; inside versus outside; Jew versus non-Jew; life versus death. Passover is a festival of absolute binary distinctions that we ritually link together in order to affirm our identity as the people God brought out of Egypt and to pass that identity on to our children. This is the Torah's equivalent of “Jewish Identity for Dummies.”

Tips for picking the right present for this Jewish rite of passage.

By listing the names of Jacob's family members who went into Egypt the Torah reminds us of the number of people who affect our lives.

Women mohels.

Not all gentiles.

In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.

First scholar in 1,000 years to author a full commentary on the Talmud.

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Throughout history, Jews have been suspicious of manticism and clairvoyance, while still practicing many diviner's arts.