This Shabbat is known as "The Great Shabbat" ("Shabbat HaGadol" in Hebrew) — see the 1st, 2nd and 7th articles.
The 3rd article is on the once-a-year blessing over budding/blossoming fruit trees (this can be a nice family activity during the weekdays of the festival, if you haven't recited it yet).
The mitzvah of Mikveh first appears in this week's Reading. Article #4 discusses a mystical aspect of this topic crucial to Judaism.
Next week: special PASSOVER issue.
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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Metzorah-HaGadol 5782
Vol. 18 No. 31, 2 - 8 Nisan, 5782 / Apr 3 - 9, 2022
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
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| Passover - Chasidic Masters | |
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Blessed Seder Preparations
— To draw down the light of Pesach, we must prepare ourselves spiritually.
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Like Frogs Jumping into Dough
— Only in the merit of Shabbat were the Israelites permitted to serve G‑d with self-sacrifice
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| Weekday Prayer - Laws & Customs | |
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The Annual Blessing Over Trees
— Kabbalah teaches that the blessing upon blossoming fruit trees can redeem souls.
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| Love & Marriage | |
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Forty in the Mikvah
— The embryo takes forty days to attain recognizable human form.
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Mystical Classics | |
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Cleansing Soul Garments
— To be healed, the metzora must shed the non-essential.
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Chasidic Masters | |
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Between Cedar and Hyssop
— The tall man pressed his lips together so that not even a drop of water should go in, for that wasn't in keeping with his prestige.
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| Mystic Story | |
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Redeemed in the Present Tense
— A group of drunken peasants burst through the front door, and...began to wreck the house.
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