Pesach 5783: The Repackaging of Passover – How Pesach Became a Holiday of Storytelling

Passover is all about telling the story of the Exodus, but that wasn’t always the case. How did the central ritual of Passover shift over time from the paschal sacrifice to the ritual of storytelling? In this special episode of the Pardes Parsha Podcast, join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Daniel Reifman on a journey of discovering the meaning of Passover in Jewish history and in our lives today.

Credits: Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Daniel Reifman – Pardes Faculty

Daniel Reifman

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Reifman teaches Talmud in the Pardes Kollel and the Intensive Talmud Skills course. Daniel holds degrees in biology, Tanakh and hermeneutics, in addition to rabbinic ordination. He has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum and Midreshet AMIT in Jerusalem, the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv, and the Drisha Institute and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. He currently holds positions at Yeshivat Maharat and the Institute for Advanced Torah Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Daniel has written extensive curricula on the five Megillot for the Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning. He is in the middle of developing an independent, comprehensive Talmud Skills curriculum. Daniel lives in Yad Binyamin with his wife and five daughters.

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