This page offers links to a multitude of websites, online tools and more that will allow you or your student to walk away with a slew of information on all things Pesach related.
Morasha Syllabus
- Pesach I: Slavery and the Pesach Miracles
- Pesach II: Nationhood, Providence & Freedom
- The Passover Seder Experience Handbook
Thinking Gemara Shiur
Getting Your Home Ready for Pesach
- Your Free Guide To Kashering For Pesach, By Rabbi Binyomin Forst by ArtScroll Publications. Excerpted from The Kosher Kitchen.
- Chometz 101
A Basic Summary of Laws in a Clear and Simple Style - Guide to Simplifying Pesach Preparations
Pesach guide perpared for Congregation Ahavas Israel by Rabbi Ferrell. - Pre-Passover Survival Guide, by Cary A. Friedman
- 5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Help Out with Pesach Cleaning – Really, by Adina Soclof
- Cyber-Selling Chametz, via Hirhurim-Musings
- Uplifting Pesach Cleaning Prayer
Prayer based on the Breslover tradition that you can recite every time you clean for Passover.
Shabbos HaGadol
- Shabbos HaGadol and Becoming a Gadol by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
- Shabbos HaGadol: What Makes it so Unbelievably “Gadol?” by Rabbi Yonah Sklare
- Shabbat HaGadol by Rabbi Ari Kahn
- Shabbos HaGadol from the Sefas Emes by Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff
- Shabbat HaGadol – Why it is Great by Rabbi Israel Lashak
- What is Shabbos HaGadol? by Rabbi Dov Winston
Pesach in Halacha
- Pesach Kuntres by Rav Shmuel Weiner
- Seder 101
A Basic Summary of its Laws in a Clear and Simple Style - Printable Seder Shiurim Chart
- Woman’s Obligation in Sipur Yitzias Mitzrayim by Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky
- Talmudic Sources for Avoiding Qitniyos
- Kitniot: A Balanced Halachic Approach, by Rabbi Zvi Leshem
- The History of Horseradish as the Bitter Herb of Passover
- The Use of Quinoa on Pesach, by R. Asher Bush
- “Hiding and “Stealing” the Afikoman” from Halachically Speaking
- Peninei Halakha: The Laws of Pesach
Chapter Nine: Kitniyot, by Rav Eliezer Melamed - Shemurah Matzah, by Aryeh Lebowitz
- STAR-S Pesach Hotline’s 10 Most asked Passover Questions from Sephardic Jews, by Star-K
- Breaking Down Gebrochts, by Tsvi Selengut
- Halachik Highlights of the Seder, by Rabbi Yochanan Schnall
Pesach Infographics
- Passover Seder Infographic, by SukkaWorld.com & JoyOfKosher.com
- Seder Plate infographic, by NCSY
- The Passover Seder Cheat Sheet, by NCSY
- Passover Seder Plate Simple Guide
- The Ten Plagues of Egypt
Resources
Pesach Themes
- The Ohr Somayach Pesach Primer
- Aish.com Passover Primer
- What is Freedom? by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
- The Bitter and the Sweet by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
- Passover: G-d’s Calling Card by Sara Yoheved Rigler
- What’s Your Addiction? by Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt
- Why Is This Matzo Different From All Other Matzos?, by Dan Barber
- Passover: What Does it Mean to be Chosen?
Exploring the depth of G-d’s agenda in the Exodus story. A thrilling 8-part video series - The Pesach To-Go Series
By YU Torah Online - PALTIEL’S DIARY: A Diary of Life in Mitzrayim, by Rabbi Ellis J. Safdeye
- Pesach Letters, by Rabbi Ellis Safdeye. You may enjoy using them for your class or even for your own Seder!
- כמה נקודות והערות להאמר לבני המשפחה by Rav Moshe Zuriel
- The greatness and uniqueness of Korban Pesach – Kuntres – by Rabbi Moshe Goldberger
- Machine-Matza Baking Video by Rabbi Binyomin Newman
- Defining Freedom, by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
- Pesach: Telling the Story, by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
- Learn about Passover in 30 minutes (or less) by Rabbi Elazar Meisels
- Pesach Resources, Jewish InterActive
Pesach is a time to tell our children the story of leaving Egypt . The question is how to make it real and alive for our children and get them excited about hearing the story at the Seder. - שיחות מוסר מאת מורנו ורבינו הג”ר יעקב יצחק רודערמאן זצ”ל בענייני יציאת מצרים
- Why I Love Pesach, by the Rebbetzin’s Husband
- Chag Hamatzot Ve Simcha shel Mitzva, by Rav Ruderman
- Nissan: Living the Month – A Spring of Faith, by Rabbi Yosef Ettlinger
Haggadah Texts and Commentaries
- New Free Pesach Haggadah from NCSY! “Just One”, by Rabbi Michoel Green
- Three Steps to a Meaningful Seder by Rabbi Levi Lebovits
- The Art of Leading an Amazing Seder by Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld
- The Emunah Haggadah – Appendix
- Hebrew/English Hagaddah by Rabbi Yair Daar
- Divrei Torah on Haggadah: From the Mirrer Yeshiva Haggadah
- Printable Haggadah Companion, by Long Island Torah Network
- What’s the Seder of the Seder? A Compilation Explaining the Order of Magid, compiled by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Robinson
- The Malbim Hagaddah in English, Translated by Rabbi Jonathan Taub
and Rabbi Yisroel Shaw. A remarkable essay which reveals the secret of the structure of the Haggadah, a puzzle which has challenged generations of scholars. - Rav Soloveitchik Haggadah
Online work-in-progress Haggadah based on the talks of R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, by Rabbi Ari Kahn - Hagaddah Riddles
- Basic Haggada Shel Pesach by Ariel Guttermann
- Toras Chacham Haggadah Shel Pesach
- ביאת אליהו בליל הסדר
- NCSY Seder Companion – Divrei Torah contributed by NCSY Board Members
- The Passover Seder Brought to Life by the Rabbi Warren Goldstein Family
- The 4 Sons of The Haggadah, by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
- Aish UK Haggadah Companion by Aish UK
- Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Reuven Leuchter Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah (Expand shiur selection number)
- Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Meyer Twersky Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Series on Pesach and the Hagaddah
- Haggadah Rhymes
- Great Haggada & Seforim Links
- Creative Seders
What do you do to make your seder fun and meaningful for both children and adults? - The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?, by Eliezer Brodt
- The Barebones Seder, via Hirhurim-Musings
- Four Questions to Dating Freedom, by Gary Tolchinsky
- The Passover Seder’s Most Important Idea by Rabbi Benjamin Bleich
Programming Ideas
- Double Dare — Ten Plagues by NCSY
- How Free Are You? by NCSY
- Silence Your Ego by NCSY
Children’s Resources
- The Wise Son Haggadah, by Rabbi Gedalia Goldstein
- The Father & Son Haggadah
- The Junior Haggadah
- Awesome Pesach, Sensational Seder by Rav Yechiel Weberman
- Coloring sheets
- Pesach Word Search
- Passover Kid’s Craft: The Ten Plagues
- Free Pesach Clipart
Free Pesach clipart for a classroom or promotional flyer. - Mishnayos Pesachim Perek Arvei Pesachim. It is geared to be used before Pesach, as it connects the Mishnayos to the Simanim of the Seder, by Binyomin Karman. (For middle school age)
- Hilchos Pesach in English 6 Units, by Binyomin Karman. (For middle school age)
- Hilchos Pesach in Lashon Kodesh 6 Units , by Binyomin Karman. (For middle school age)
- Comprehensive Haggadah for middle school grades, by Binyomin Karman.
Cooking Corner
- Edible 10 Plagues by Jamie Geller
- Passover Charoset Recipes From Around the World Live Map, by Tabletmag
- Best Chometz-Substitute List
At some point during Pesach preparations we’ve all tried to convert a mainstream recipe into a Pesach one…only to discover that we don’t have a clue as to what to substitute for a chometz ingredient. Here is a “Complete List of Pesach Substitutes.”
Websites
- Purim @ Aish.com / Alphabeta.org / Ohr.edu / OU.org / Torah.org / Yutorah.org
- Rabbi Reuven Leuchter
- Lehavin – Shiurim of HaRav Moshe Shapira zt”l (Hebrew)
- Rabbi Akiva Tatz
- TorahAnytime.com
- Torahdownloads.com
Images
- Passover During the Holocaust
- Pictures of Passover Seders from the Central Zionist Archives
- The World’s Biggest Matzah
Post-Pesach
- Rabbi Cohen of the CRC speaks about Supermarket Chametz After Pesach
- Mimouna, by Rabbi Ari Enkin
Pesach Sheni
- Pesach Sheni, by Halachically Speaking
Prezis
Video
- Nissan and Coronavirus, by Rabbi Yitzchok Summers
- All about Pesach with Aish Chaim
- Best Pesach Videos on YouTube
- How to Make A Seder (NJOP)
- Pesach Music Videos (screened for kol isha and tznius)
- Pesach Songs for Kids (children’s youtube use should be closely supervised)
- OU Kosher Pre-Pesach Webcast 5773 (2013)
With Rav Yisroel Belsky and Rav Hershel Schachter. Is quinoa Kitnios? Must I check a summer home for chometz? What if my job involves serving chometz during Pesach? Are all pills allowed? Was enslavement in Egypt “good for the Jews”? Tune in to find out. - Passover Seder 101 Web Series (video)
NJOP’s Passover Seder Web Series corresponding to the 15 steps of the seder. Featuring Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald - Machine-Matza Baking Video, by Joel Rose
- Pesach Videos by Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg
- The Importance of Questions at the Seder by Rabbi Mordechai Becher
- Pesach — Forgotten Holiday by Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky
- The Exodus from Egypt, the Story is Not Yet Over by Rabbi Eitan Feiner
- Insights on the Haggadah Shel Pesach by Rabbi Eitan Feiner
- Pesach: A Tree Grows from the Roots of Emunah by Rabbi Mordechai Finkelman
- Pesach: Making a Dramatic Exit! Part 1 by Rabbi Jonathan Taub
- Pesach: Making a Dramatic Exit! Part 2 by Rabbi Jonathan Taub
Passover! – Mayim Bialik
Passover: You’re Never Alone
A short video of Matzah Baking
Rabbi Yehuda Simes at the COR Pre Passover Lecture
Rabbi Haber: Whats the Focus, Me or the World
Matzo-ball Recipe
We’ll See Miracles
