Prozbul Reminder – Free Download

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The Torah provides that outstanding loans between two Jews are automatically nullified atthe very end of the Shemittah [Sabbatical] year (Deuteronomy 15:2). Hillel the Elder observed that the wealthy, fearing their money would not be repaid, refused to lend to the poor prior to Shemittah. This not only caused a hardship for the poor, but was also a direct transgression of the Torah’s exhortation not to refrain from lending (ibid. 15:9-10).
To remedy this situation, Hillel enacted the prozbul, a legal document by means of which a creditor transfers his loans to a court. [Three knowledgeable laymen may constitute a court for this purpose.] Once the debts have been transferred to the court for collection, they are not nullified by Shemittah (Sheviis 10:2), as implied by Scripture.
Since Shemittah nullifies loans at the end of the year, it is advisable to delay writing the prozbul until Erev Rosh Hashanah, so that it will cover all loans made up to Rosh Hashanah. A prozbul should be made before Rosh Hashanah this year.

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Free Download: Five Amazing Recipes for Shavuos

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To help you plan and prepare for the upcoming holiday of Shavuos, we’ve combed through ArtScroll’s selection of best-selling cookbooks and picked five fabulous dairy recipes for an incredible meal that will enhance your shavuos menu.

Scroll down for a fantastic five-course meal – click each recipe title for a printable PDF of that recipe.

Tomato-Tart-from-Starters-and-Sides-Made-EasyAppetizer: Tomato Tart from Starters and Sides Made Easy

By Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek

Click here for the printable recipe: Tomato Tart

Click here to purchase a copy of Starters and Sides Made Easy

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Soup: Broccoli and Cheddar Soup from Dairy Made Easy

 By Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek

Click here for the printable recipe: Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

Click here to purchase a copy of Dairy Made Easy

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Main: Spinach Quiche from Secret Restaurant Recipes

by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek

Click here for the printable recipe: Spinach Quiche 

Click here to purchase Secret Restaurant Recipes

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Side: Cheesy Smashed Potatoes from the brand-new cookbook, The Silver Platter

by Daniella Silver with Norene Gilletz

Click here for the printable recipe: Cheesy Smashed Potatoes

Click here to purchase a copy of The Silver Platter

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Dessert: Cheese Danish Galette from Kosher by Design Cooking Coach

by Susie Fishbein

Click here for the printable recipe: Cheese Danish Galette

Click here to purchase a copy of Kosher by Design Cooking Coach

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Ten Free Pesach Resources from ArtScroll

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With Pesach just a week away, there’s a ton of preparation to be done. There’s a kitchen to kasher, food to cook, and of course, a Seder to prepare for. Here are the Official ArtScroll Blog, we’ve been helping you along with free dowloads and guides to assist in your Pesach preparation. To make sure you haven’t missed any, here’s a roundup of all of the Pesach resources we’ve shared.

Haggadah Downloads: 

Download a sampler from Haggadah Touched by Our Story

Download a sampler from The Generation to Generation Haggadah

Download a sampler from Haggadah The Answer Is

Passover Cooking:

Five great Passover recipes from The Official ArtScroll Blog

Free Passover Recipe Cards Download

Free Guide: Make your favorite recipes from Secret Restaurant Recipes kosher for pesach

Halachic Guide:

Free Download: Guide to Kashering your Kitchen

Holiday Reading:

Download a sampler from Lifelines

Download a sampler from Life’s Blessings

Download a sampler from A Touch of Chizuk

It’s not too late to get your Passover order delivered in time! Click here to shop all Pesach titles on ArtScroll.com.

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Secret Restaurant Recipes – Pesach Guide

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For Jewish cooks all over the world, the search for Passover recipes usually means shelving your favorite cookbooks for a week or two. But we have good news for all of you fans of  our latest hit cookbook, Secret Restaurant Recipes. Authors Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek have compiled a handy list of 39  favorite recipes from this fantastic book – so you can keep cooking those favorites all through Pesach!

Click here to download a list of 39 Kosher for Passover recipes and substitutions from Secret Restaurant Recipes

Click here to buy Secret Restaurant Recipes

Also available: list of Kosher for Passover recipes from Fresh and Easy Kosher Cooking.

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Two Free Downloads from ArtScroll’s New Haggadah Releases

ArtScroll’s two new Haggadahs, Haggadah Touched by Our Story (by Rabbi Yechiel Spero) and The Generation to Generation Haggadah (by Rabbi Nosson Muller), are already getting rave reviews. Last week, we offered you a chance to win a copy of each new Haggadah in our pre-pesach giveaway. Now, we’re giving all of our readers a chance to try the Haggadahs free! Scroll down to download a free sampler of each Haggadah!

Didn’t enter the giveaway yet? It’s not too late! Giveaway ends at midnight on Wednesday – click here to enter for your free chance to win one of each new Haggadah!

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The Soul of the Seder Through Stories and Reflections

By Rabbi Yechiel Spero

The Haggadah. It’s our story. Let’s make sure we tell it well.

Click here to view, print or download a sampler from Haggadah Touched by Our Story

Click here to purchase Haggadah Touched by Our Story

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“No Child Left Behind” — especially on Seder night.

By Rabbi Nosson Muller

Click here to view, print or download a sampler from The Generation to Generation Haggadah

Click here to purchase The Generation to Generation Haggadah

 

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Dont’ forget to prepare for the seder with the Haggadah that’s the best fit for every person at your table. You’ll definitely going to find the one you’re looking for with ArtScroll’s selection of over 60 Haggadahs!

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Five Great Passover Recipes from ArtScroll’s Pesach Cookbooks

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With Pesach around the corner, ArtScroll is here to help with your menu planning!

ArtScroll’s selection of Passover cookbooks have sold nearly 100,000 copies, so you know they’re great, that their recipes work, and people turn to them again and again. Here are five great sample recipes to enjoy over the holiday. Even though these recipes are Kosher for Pesach, you’ll probably turn to them all-year-round! Make sure to pick up a copy of Passover by Design, Passover Made Easy and A Taste of Pesach for hundreds more delicious menu options.

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Scroll down for five delicious recipes…

 

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Recipe from A Taste of Pesach By Yeshivah Me’on HaTorah 

Click here to view or print the recipe for Sweet Potato Crisps Salad

 

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Recipe from Passover Made Easy by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek

Click here to view or print the recipe for Eggplant-Wrapped Chicken

 

 

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Recipe from Passover by Design by Susie Fishbein

Click here to view or print the recipe for Spicy Potato Stacks

 

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Recipe from A Taste of Pesach by Yeshivah Me’on HaTorah

Click here to view or print the recipe for Baby Bella and Cranberry Brisket

 

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Recipe from A Taste of Pesach by Yeshivah Me’on HaTorah

Click here to view or print the recipe for Mandelbrodt/Biscotti

 

Looking for even more Passover recipes? Click here for last year’s free recipe downloads.

Click here to shop ArtScroll’s best-selling Passover cookbooks

Did you enter our giveaway yet? There’s a double haggadah giveaway happening right now. Click here to enter.

New Haggadahs from ArtScroll and a Double Giveaway!

Want to win a copy of one of ArtScroll’s excellent new haggadahs? Scroll down for a double giveaway!

Pesach is just a few weeks away, and we have two brand-new haggadahs to enhance your seder and help you really understand the story or yetzias mitzrayim.

Haggadah Touched by Our Story: The Soul of the Seder Through Stories and Reflections

By Rabbi Yechiel Sperohtsh

The Haggadah. It’s our story. Let’s make sure we tell it well.

This year, invite a master story-teller to your seder. Acclaimed teacher, best-selling author, and master story-teller Rabbi Yechiel Spero is back with a brand new haggadah, Touched by Our Story. In this masterful new volume, Rabbi Spero combines wide-ranging, stimulating commentary on the Haggadah and, of course, his trademark true stories. Enlightening, engaging and eye-opening, this is a Haggadah that will ensure a lively, meaningful and enjoyable seder for us, our guests, and — most important of all — our children, the next generation to tell the stories.

 

 

The Generation to Generation Haggadah

By Rabbi Nosson Mullergngh

The Pesach Seder. The one night a year that Jews throughout the world relive and experience the Exodus from Egypt. It is the time when we infuse in ourselves and our children lessons of emunah, faith, and an immense appreciation for the kindness and love bestowed upon us by Hashem.

In this unique Haggadah commentary, Rabbi Nosson Muller, Menahel of Yeshiva Toras Emes in Brooklyn, and renowned and experienced educator, offers us the tools to make the Seder an unforgettable event and an exciting learning experience. With insightful explanations coupled with dozens of inspiring and meaningful stories and parables, Rabbi Muller gives us timely and practical chinuch messages and lessons — for ourselves, and to convey to our children. This haggadah is bound to keep the children — and their parents — engaged and interested throughout the long night.

On seder night every parent becomes a teacher. Here is a master educator to show us how to do it right. The seder lasts for a few hours — The Generation to Generation Haggadah will help us and our children hear its vital message resound throughout the year.

Giveaway is over! Congrats to Leah Rina and Zorach M. Spira on winning!

Two separate readers will each win a copy of one of these new Haggadahs! To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us that you would like to win.

**Giveaway ends on Wednesday, March 25th at 11:59 pm eastern time. One winner will receive a copy of Haggadah Touched by Our Story, and another winner will receive a copy of The Generation to Generation Haggadah. Prize can be shipped within the USA. Winner will be chosen randomly and notified via email. Valid email address must be provided to claim prize. Winner will have 48 hours to answer or another winner will be chosen. Limit one entry per person. 

Free Weekly Download: Halachic Handbook: The Laws of Purim

When you think of purim, you might think of fun – parties, costumes and shalach manos. But it’s important to understand the laws and customs of purim as well. Enter The Halachic Handbook: Laws of Purim, . by Rabbi Yitzchok Rosedale. In this handy, pocket-sized volum, the laws of Purim are clearly laid out and explained in a concise and understandable manner.

This week is Parashas Zachor, the shabbos in which we read the Torah portion recounting the war with Amalek. To help you understand the complex laws surrounding this special mitzvah, this week’s free download gives you the chapter on Parashas Zochar. Download it and share it with your friends so they can learn too.

Click here to view, print or download a chapter from Halachic Handbook: The Laws of Purim

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Weekly Free Download: The Wisdom in the Hebrew Months

whmhToday is Rosh Chodesh Adar – that means Purim is just two weeks away!

Here on The Official ArtScroll Blog, we’ve been helping you prepare for Purim, and today’s free download will continue to help our loyal readers get ready for purim with the chapter about Adar from The Wisdom in the Hebrew Months by Zvi Ryzman. 

Classic works of Jewish thought teach that each of the twelve lunar months corresponds to one of the twelve tribes. What do the months and the respective tribes have in common? … The Wisdom in the Hebrew Months opens the door to a new dimension of understanding. Drawing upon the full breadth of Talmudic, Midrashic, and Rabbinic literature, this work sheds new light on the months of the year, the tribes of Israel, and the ways that Hashem relates to His people. It is engrossing, interesting, stimulating, and provocative.

Click here to view, print or Download a sample chapter from The Wisdom in the Hebrew Months.

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Click here to shop purim titles on ArtScroll.com

ArtScroll’s Ultimate Purim Giveaway!

We’re gearing up for Purim here at ArtScroll, and we’re giving away a selection of Purim titles and gifts for everyone in your family!

ArtScroll’s extensive selection of Purim titles includes megillos for both adults and children, Purim reading and stories, halachic guides, and even Purim themed judaica and mishloach manos items. Make sure to shop now in order to get everything in time for Purim, then scroll down for your chance to win our ultimate Purim gift basket!

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The Ultimate Purim Gift Basket Giveaway!

Included in this giveaway:

Esther: The Megillah: This is the sefer that launched what was to become ArtScroll. This ground-breaking sefer contains the text of the megillah, English translation, and commentary from 2000 years of talmudic and rabbinic sources.

Let My Nation LiveLearn and understand the Purim story as never before with this fascinating book. While it reads like a story, this book is filled with carefully researched facts based on Talmudic and Medrashic sources. Download a sample chapter here. 

The Family Megillah: x2!! This easy-to-follow edition of Megillas Esther provides the text, translation and short commentary – all in a compact sefer. All of the adults in your family will want to use one of these, so it’s a good thing the winner will be getting two of them!

Halachic Handbook: The Laws of PurimThis pocket-sized sefer contains a clear and concise summary of the laws of Purim in an easy-to-follow, readable format.

The ArtScroll Children’s MegillahIn this  edition of Megillas Esther, made especially for children, renowned children’s author, Shmuel Blitz, presents the story of Esther – and its lessons – in a thrilling and exciting manner. This is a great way for your children to learn the Purim story!

Purim Cookie Cutters: ArtScroll carries a full line of Judaica for all seasons and Purim is no exception. With fun paper-goods, mishloach manos gift boxes and lots more, ArtScroll.com is your one-stop-shop for all things Purim! These Purim shaped cookie cutters will make it easy to create adorable Purim-themed cookies!

Purim ConfettiThis confetti comes in an assortment of Purim shapes and will make your Purim celebrations a whole lot more fun!

To enter the giveaway for all of the above items in ArtScroll’s Ultimate Purim Package: Leave a comment on this post letting us know that you would like to win!

Giveaway now closed! Check back soon for the winner!

**Giveaway ends on Wednesday, February 25th at 11:59 pm eastern time. Winner will receive one copy of Esther: The Megillah, one copy of Halachic Handbook: The Laws of Purim, one copy of The ArtScroll Children’s Megillah, one copy of Let My Nation Live, two copies of The Family Megillah, one set of Purim Cookie Cutters and one package of Purim Confetti. Prize does not include food and baskets. Prize can be shipped within the USA. Winner will be chosen randomly and notified via email. Valid email address must be provided to claim prize. Limit one entry per person.