What Is The Real Story of Passover? with Rabbi Markman

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Right about now, you might be wondering why we have to eat flat bread. Right about now, you might be frustrated with the long dinners with the even longer stories. Right about now, you might be bored out of your mind as there is CLEARLY no meaning to these new restrictions. Don't worry. We'll explain everything.

Chaz Volk, the new Chief Marketing Officer of Aish Los Angeles and host of Bad Jew, interviews his boss, Executive Director Rabbi Aryeh Markman. Markman goes beyond the elementary-level Hebrew school class on Passover and explains the real meaning of Passover and how this tradition started not too long ago.

00:00 Introduction with my boss

04:30 Embracing tradition

09:05 3,000 years is not that long

11:54 Jewish culture and success tied to Torah

13:16 Challenging perceptions of ancient Passover story validity

18:25 Ego

21:41 Freedom and reflection

25:13 Pesach on the hebrew calendar

27:50 Modern Day Antisemitism

30:05 Conclusion

About Rabbi Aryeh Markman:

Rabbi Aryeh Markman has been the dedicated Executive Director of Aish HaTorah Los Angeles since 1994. Rabbi Markman attended the university of Illinois, graduating with a Distinction in Finance. He then visited Israel, where he was introduced to Rabbi Noach Weinberg and Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. Turning down MBA school offers from University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, he continued to pursue Talmudic study, and received Smicha from Rabbi Noach Weinberg. Rabbi Markman and his wife Rochel then moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and are the proud parents of 7 children.

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