Sermon for the Sabbath Preceding Passover

Ezekiel Landau

1782

This is therefore followed by a question: since it is so that we are still slaves, why is this night of Egyptian exile different from all the other nights of exile under other kingdoms? Why all this commotion on the night when we went out from Egypt, if we are still slaves? The answer is that there is a great difference, for then in Egypt we were…

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Ezekiel Landau

1713–1793

Ezekiel (Yeḥezkel) Landau was born in Opatów (Apt), Poland, and was part of the kabbalistic kloyz in Brody. In 1745, he became the chief rabbi and head of yeshiva in Jampol, Poland. Landau was appointed chief rabbi of Prague in 1754, a position he held until his death. In this public role, he contributed to political decisions concerning education and military service. Landau is most revered for his halakhic scholarship, particularly his Noda bi-Yehudah (1776; 1811), a two-volume collection of more than 850 responsa; he became known by the title of that work.

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