The Four Sons: What About the Four Daughters?

Posted by Nechama Goldman Barash on March 30, 2017
Topics: Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Pesach

Women have more positive time bound mitzvot on this night than on any other night of the year. In this podcast that was recorded as part of the Yom Iyun Shel Pesach at Pardes, Nechama Goldman Barash asks why were women deliberately obligated in every aspect of the Pesach seder? A look at the aggadic stories around the women of the Exodus may give us a clue.

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About Nechama Goldman Barash

Nechama Goldman Barash made aliyah from Philadelphia over 20 years ago after graduating from Stern College. She studied for three years in Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute and finished a master’s degree in Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. She is a graduate of Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha program and has been certified to teach brides before their weddings, as well as qualifying as a sex educator through Yahel and the Eden Center. She also studied for three years in Matan's advanced halakha program, Hilkhata. Nechama is the Director of the Pardes Learning Seminar. She teaches contemporary halakha and Talmud at Matan and Pardes, as well as Talmud and women and halakha in Torah V'Avodah (TVA), a Bnei Akiva gap year program based in Matan. She is an active member of Beit Hillel and participates in interfaith dialogue through Roots, based in Gush Etzion, close to where she lives with her family. She is currently working on a book dealing with matters of gender and halakha.

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