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Are Hops kosher for passover without certification?

Inspired by http://www.toastale.com/toast-ale-recipe/ my idea is instead of using bread to use matzah as the source of fermentable sugars. The ingredients for modern beer "usually" are malt, water, ...
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Chad Gadya and Echad Mi Yodeya in the Haggadah

My question is about the history of the Passover song Chad Gadya. I have long suspected this song was originally conceived as a pastiche of Echad Mi Yodeya--the thematic, musical, and phonetic ...
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Pesach circumcision a rememberance of the covenant made with Avraham?

Within the narrative of the story of the covenant and promise made with Avraham we learn a couple of things. One of those things is that the seed of Avraham will be gerim in a land not theirs. It's ...
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Who did this item belong to during the first pesach he celebrated when he had forgotten about it and may he partake of it now?

Someone who isn't Jewish owns something which is chametz. He is storing it at a family members house. They understand it to belong to him and therefore won't eat this thing. Meanwhile he has forgotten ...
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Congregation sings parts of the Shiroh before the reader on the seventh day of Pesach?

Is there a recognised minhag for the congregation to sing selected verses from the “Song at the Sea” (Shiroh) Shmos 15 (1-18) before they are read by the reader on the seventh day of Pesach? Related ...
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Does a Jewish-owned supermarket need to completely seal its chametz product aisles?

Follow up to this question: In almost all the Jewish-owned supermarkets that I have seen, the store owner completely seals the chametz aisles by placing a huge cardboard "wall" at both ends of the ...
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Difference in Torah readings Israel vs. Diaspora and Pesach vs. Succot

This question has a link in one of the comments referring to an article explaining why each day of Pesach has a different Torah reading. During Succot, I notice that the 2nd day of Yom Tov in ...

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