The Three Names of Passover

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay thank you everybody for coming i greatly appreciate it and i'm glad that you were able to make it for this lecture this evening or this afternoon or this morning depending on where you are in the world we're going to be discussing the three names for the holiday of passover namely passoth what we're going to do is we're going to try to delve into the etymology of these three different terms and try to pull out different big ideas and lessons that we can learn big ideas and lessons that we can learn from the terms themselves and from the interplay of the different names for the holiday of passover um if i could please ask the audience to to try to keep the questions to the end so that you know we don't get off track and off topic too much um if you want to put something in the chat so i'll probably be able to see it in the chat and if i want to discuss it i could discuss it on the spot if i want to discuss it later then i could work on discussing it later okay work on discussing it later okay so we're going to be discussing the three terms passage the first term pass off we all know that the holiday of passover is called passov what is the word pesach mean where does it come up so it actually comes up in sephora schmos in the book of exodus in chapter 12 multiple times in the story of the exodus and if you look over there you'll see that rossi uses

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