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So let’s continue in our Exodus story. We are learning about Pesach “Passover” (but as I point out it really means “Protection”.)
Exodus 12 (NIV)
10Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
12“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. 15For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
As always if you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comment area.
Thank you and Shana Tova!
Hi Roman,
Enjoyed this one very much, a lot of food for my mind.
One thing though I have to say about your remark on the Conservative Judaism.
To say that there are no conservative Jews but either Orthodox or Reform, is like saying that there is no grey, only black or white; no orange, only red or yellow; and so on. But you wouldn’t say that, would you?
Whether one is closer to Orthodox or closer to Reform is irrelevant, really, they are all neither the one nor the other end of the spectrum. Had they been they would identify with that end.
There are significant differences between Conservative and either the Reform or the Orthodox, and as Orthodox is not any single doctrine but a whole range of things, so are the Conservative a whole range of different beliefs, united in some common middle ground.
That’s all.
Thank you,
Vera