Torah Central

From the time the Torah was received by Moshe on the mountain named Sinai/Hatred it was divided into weekly sections finishing the Torah each year—that practice continues until today. Today’s portion in the Torah, which is also the first day of Passover, begins with Drash-Drash two words denoting inquiry. Between these two words is the center of the words in the Torah; tomorrow the center of the Torah letters is denoted by a large letter Nun/50 in the world Nachus/Serpent. Two thousand years later the people who composed the Talmud known as Divri Sofrim/Word Counters eventually, after millennium of exile developed the language of the Cabala.

It is on this day also that the announcement of Tal/Dew was made throughout the Jewish world. Though the seasons are divided into four, there is yet another division between rain and dew. The beginning of spring, on the first day of the seven day holiday Passover announces dew; six months later at the end of the other seven day holiday Suchot is announced rain.

During Passover you can eat anywhere, but no leaven; during Suchot you can eat what you wish, but only in the Sucha—a small temporary dwelling erected for this seven day period.