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Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

The retelling of the story of the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt and journey to the Promised Land of Israel is the essence of the Passover holiday, especially of the Seder on the evening ...