Episode 231 The Great Hallel and the Fifth Cup

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A psalm is associated with a largely unknown feature of Maimonides’s Passover Seder.

In this episode, Rabbi Soloveichik refers to an article in the Jerusalem Post.

You can read it here.

Text: Psalms 136

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