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After the spiritual "high" of Pesach / Kriyas Yam-Suf, getting back to regular life can be rough for an addict. Immediately after kriyas Yam Suf, it says that the Yidden went for three days into the desert and that there was no water for the people to drink. This place wa...

Question: Why did Hashem tell Moshe to tell Pharaoh that the Jewish people just wanted to just leave "derech shloshes yamim - a way of three days" to serve Hashem, making it sound like we were planning to come back? Indeed when we finally left, Pharaoh sent spies after us...

I believe that Hashem heals us only oneday at a time. Not for a week, a month, a year, and certainly not for a lifetime. I believe that for an addict, the "teshuvah gemurah" fantasy (as Chazal say for normal people: "he is omeid in one big nisayon so that Hashem is mey'id...

Question of the Week: What is the connection between eating matzah and escaping from Egypt? I know that the Jews left Egypt in such a rush, the dough didn't have time enough to rise. The men would have been saying to their wives, "Honey we gotta go in 10 minutes, just gra...

Mitchilah ovdei avodah zara hayu avoseinu v'achshav karvanu Hamokom la'avodaso.(Hagada Shel Pesach) Mitchilah ovdei avodah zara hayu avoseinu & what changed. Why/how are we different?? V'achshav karvanu Hamokom la'avodaso. Hashem brought us close to Him. It is NOT to ...

OK, here's a Pesach Vort that has me on a high, said over by a fellow Chaver on Duvid chaim's call from Rabbi Reisman, but I'm embellishing the idea somewhat: How do you grow to believe in yourself that you can make it? How do you know Hashem loves You? On Seder night, th...

Someone told me over a powerful vort today from the Me'or Einayim that relates very much to the situation that many of us are in, here on GYE. Why is this Shabbos called Shabbos Hagadol? Explains the Me'or Einayim that the Yidden were in a state of "Katnus" before leaving...

At Chabad’s Project Pride, we have a team of specialists that facilitates interventions. When family members decide that it is time for drastic measures, they bring together the addict’s close family and friends. Our team then prepares for a moment that might save a life....

The 12-Steps stress that it is generally our egos that cause us to "act-out", whether stemming from a sense of "entitlement", or from the need to "control" things to go our way. When an addict is finally "beaten" and his life becomes unmanageable, he stands before two cho...

This coming seder night, we will read of the Makkos (plagues). We will all ask, "how was Pharaoh so stupid as to not read the danger signs?". We will be answered that "Hashem hardened his heart". It took a mortal danger to Pharaoh himself before he ran to the B'nei...

Many families gather together for the Passover Seder. They eat the matzah and the bitter herbs, drink the four cups, and recite the Haggadah. The house is free of all chametz. In our prayers we refer to Passover as "the festival of liberation." These are wonderful mitzvot...

This is based on a shiur available for download from www.jerusalempulseradio.com by Rabbi Yaakov Labinsky (of Aish) entitled "Higher order of the Seder." This is but a distillation, and the reader is encouraged to listen to the original Shiur. The avodah of the Pesach Sed...