There is fairly straightforward chain of reasoning relating to leaven.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 5:7
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable...
A number of recent posts related to Jesus rising on Easter or the like made me realize that this would make Jesus kind of the opposite of one of the main ideas of Passover, which is ironic because Christians consider him to be the ultimate Passover lamb.
Let me explain: During Passover, Jews...
Judaism DIR
This story passed around yesterday in some Whatsapp groups I'm in. It was written by Rabbi Chaim Sabato, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maaleh Adumim. Here's a translation:
My first Pesach Seder in the IDF:
I was a young soldier. It was my first year in the army. A...
Do jews slaughter and eat the paschal lamb on nisan 14th (nightfall/evening) or 15th (nightfall/evening)?
If it is slaughtered and eaten in the 14th, then what do the jews have in their seder meal on 15th, other than matzah?
My city's rabbinate splurged this year and bought these metal trash bins for burning chametz, instead of having bonfires in the middle of the city.
If you're wondering what those long branch-things are, that's a custom by some people to burn the dead, dried-up remains of the Lulav, Hadassim...
Pesach is coming up, of course. So I am wondering how we can prevent the current COVID-19 situation from impacting it. I see several issues.
One issue is an increased difficulty in finding Pesach supplies. Grocery stores are poorly stocked, supply chains have been disrupted, and stores hours...
Short answer: Maybe?
Long answer: I was talking to a friend last night and we got to talking about the Jewish Halacha of reclining (Hasava - הסבה in Hebrew) during the Passover Seder, when suddenly I realized: Wait a minute, The Last Supper took place on Seder night, and in da Vinci's famous...