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Reading the Haggadah is just one of many, many rituals at the Passover Seder – but it’s not easy to read. Sometimes in a rush to fit it all, we mumble our way through the Maggid text, without really considering what it means. But Haggadah is a text to be studied, not rushed, and it’s easy to miss the bigger picture – and one of the most important messages behind the Maggid.

You might ask, where in the Haggadah is the actual Exodus story, the reason we hold Passover? Instead, the Haggadah shows us the story from a farmer’s perspective, written much later, as well as stories of God’s interaction with the Israelite nation – all the way back to Abraham.

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This aired on ITV in April 2022.  (Part 2 of 2) At the burning bush, God told Moses to show the people of Israel three signs, so they would believe that God was in fact with them. Was there any significance to these three signs, or did God randomly select them? And were the signs even effective? 

Join Rabbi Fohrman in taking a closer look at these three signs from God. We'll see how the signs seem to correspond to three ways in which Egypt made Israel suffer — and also, to three lies that intensified their suffering. 

Redemption from Egypt wasn’t just about setting Israel free. It was also about exposing those lies, so the Egyptian persecutors couldn't hide from their deeds.

This episode originally aired on ITV in April 2022.  
(Part 1 of 2) At the burning bush, God told Moses to show the people of Israel three signs, so they would believe that God was in fact with them. Was there any significance to these three signs, or did God randomly select them? And were the signs even effective? 

Join Rabbi Fohrman in taking a closer look at these three signs from God. We'll see how the signs seem to correspond to three ways in which Egypt made Israel suffer — and also, to three lies that intensified their suffering. 

Redemption from Egypt wasn’t just about setting Israel free. It was also about exposing those lies, so the Egyptian persecutors couldn't hide from their deeds.

This episode originally aired on ITV, April 2023.  
In this week’s episode, Ari Levisohn, notices that this isn’t the only connection between the Mishkan and the Israelites’ homes on that original Passover. These connections lead to a fascinating exploration of the monumental impact of that original Passover and what we and our families can gain fr