Rabbi Akiva’s Seder Table: A lesson in Positive Psychology

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While there are several accounts of rabbinic Passover Seder gatherings, the most famous of these is the one recorded in our Haggadah: the Seder of Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar, the son of Azarya, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon. They were reclining at the Seder service in B’nei Brak, and had spent the whole night telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt, until their pupils came and said to them: ‘Our masters, it is time to recite the morning Shema!

This account appears in the Haggadot of Geonim, such as R. Amram Gaon, and the Haggadot of Rishonim, including that of the Rambam (Hilchot Chametz u’Matza Nusach Haggadah), Tosafot, (Ketubot 105a, s.v. de-chashiv) and the Ritva.

AMIT Launches $10 Million Capital Campaign

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For the past thirty years, AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled and AMIT Kfar Blatt have reflected the very worst and best parts of Israel. Children come to Beit Hayeled escaping from the worst possible circumstances. They leave homes where beatings, sexual abuse, mental cruelty, alcoholism, and neglect are a way of life. To stay is impossible, and children as young as five no longer have a place to call home or anyone to love and help them.