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    Gemara ⇄ Halakha ⇄ Haggadah track

    Pesachim - preparations for Pesach

    A blueprint from sugya to seder night

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    Chapter 1 · Laws of chametz and its search

    6 lessons
    1. 01Opening of the masechet - "On the eve of the fourteenth we search for chametz" (2a) 24 min
    2. 02What we search for, where, and by what light? (7b–8a) 22 min
    3. 03Bittul chametz - "Kol chamira di-vi-reshuti" (4b–7a) 24 min
    4. 04Bal yeraʼeh and bal yimatzei - two prohibitions, four lavin (5b, 21a) 22 min
    5. 05Mekhirat chametz - from indirect heter to halakhic protocol (21a, Rema 448) 26 min
    6. 06Matzah - a Torah-level mitzvah in every generation (38–39, 120a) 22 min
    02

    Chapter 2 · Korban Pesach and its memory

    6 lessons
    1. 07The essence of Korban Pesach: a family sacrifice, not individual (61–66) 22 min
    2. 08When we slaughter - pushing aside Shabbat and the Mikdash service (65b, 80a) 24 min
    3. 09How it is eaten: roasted, in a chaburah, at night (86–87) 22 min
    4. 10Pesach Sheni - a second chance (93a, Bamidbar 9) 20 min
    5. 11Zeroa, beitzah and the table - memory without the korban (114–116) 22 min
    6. 12Hallel at the seder - song over the korban and over freedom (95, 116a) 20 min
    03

    Chapter 3 · The seder of the Haggadah

    8 lessons
    1. 13Structure of the seder - Rashi’s simanim (114a) 22 min
    2. 14The four cups - where in the Torah? (108b, Yerushalmi 10:1) 22 min
    3. 15Mah Nishtanah - education before eating (116a) 20 min
    4. 16Beginning with disgrace, ending in praise - two paths of telling (116a) 24 min
    5. 17"Arami oved avi" - the heart of Maggid (Sifrei, Haggadah) 26 min
    6. 18The ten plagues - De-Tza-Kh A-Da-Sh Be-A-Cha-V (116b) 22 min
    7. 19Pesach, matzah and maror - Rabban Gamliel’s three foci (116a) 22 min
    8. 20Nirtzah - sealing the seder, sealing the journey 24 min
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