Dvar Haftorah - First Day of Pesach
From manna to meaning
The Haftorah reminds us that the miracles of the past were only the beginning. What comes next is our responsibility.
The Haftorah reminds us that the miracles of the past were only the beginning. What comes next is our responsibility.

The Haftorah for the Shabbat of Pesach is the Vision of the Bones. For Jews, the Exile is not life, but only a place of survival like dry bones until we return to Zion.


In official ceremony, Israel's Finance Minister and chief rabbis sell the State's chametz (leavened food) to a non-Jew, ahead of Passover.

While many Israelis took the week off for Pesach vacation, the supervisors of kashruth in the Chief Rabbinate were working overtime.
