‘Kzayit’: Rashi Almost Certainly Never Saw an Olive

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim

6 Nisan 5772 – March 29, 2012

Share on Facebook

Tweet on Twitter

<noscript><iframe frameBorder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:105px; height:21px; background-color:transparent;" data-src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/kzayit-torah-as-real-as-it-gets/2012/03/29/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><iframe frameBorder="0" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/kzayit-torah-as-real-as-it-gets/2012/03/29/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:105px; height:21px; background-color:transparent;"></noscript></noscript>
tweet

Photo Credit: Flash90

Olives

Before you eat your k’zayit of matza at this year’s seder, you might pause to consider what you are about to say about yourself, and what message you are about to send to your family and friends.

I can tell you what message I will be sending: that Torah and Halakah are as real as it gets.

Facebook

Twitter

<noscript><iframe frameBorder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:105px; height:21px; background-color:transparent;" data-src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/kzayit-torah-as-real-as-it-gets/2012/03/29/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><iframe frameBorder="0" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/kzayit-torah-as-real-as-it-gets/2012/03/29/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:105px; height:21px; background-color:transparent;"></noscript></noscript>
tweet

Previous articleThe No-Potato Passover: A Journey of Food, Travel & Color

Next articleGaza – You Won’t Recognize the Old Place…

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim

http://machonshilo.org

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim is the head of Machon Shilo, a centre of Jewish learning in Jerusalem dedicated to the exposition and dissemination of Torat Eretz Yisrael. The teachings of Rabbi Bar-Hayim may be found at www.machonshilo.org