Food for thoughts
The Jewish Easter party begins on Saturday, April 12 at Sundown and goes until the night of Sunday, April 20. There are variations of the tradition of orthodox to reformed. Two nights present ceremonial foods for a story again.
Basic Easter concepts
In simple terms, Moses returned to Egypt to free the Israelites of Pharoah after God told him that Israel is his firstborn son. When Pharoah refused to let them go, God said he would die to all the firstborn in Egypt.
It is said that God told Moses to tell the Israelites to paint the lamb blood in their posts.
In this way, the angel would know that the Jews live there. I would go on that house and not kill the firstborn child. This is where the name of Easter comes from.
For the last plague (the tenth), even Pharaoh’s own son was killed. The invoked to Moses and told him to get the Israelites out of Egypt immediately.
Finally, after more than 200 years of slavery, the Jewish people were free.
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The Seder Plate
There are variations in Easter practices for the different types of Judaism. Some families gather in the first one or two nights of the eight -day holidays for Seder, where they eat a ceremonial dinner and tell the story of their increase and freedom again.
The centerpiece of Easter food includes the thesis of traditional and symbolic foods:
Bitter herbs (Manor): They remind us of the bitterness of slavery.
Charoset: A mixture of chopped apples, nuts and wine that resembles the mortar and brick used to build the pyramids.
Egg (beitzah): symbolic of the sacrifice made in biblical times; A spring and rebirth signal.
Vango de Astago (Zera): Symbolizes the lamb that was sacrificed in ancient days before the temple was destroyed.
Perejil (karpas): A symbol of life, parsley is immersed in salt water and eats to represent the tears that spill the Jewish ancestors.
The renovated Jews have created other symbolic foods to accompany the Sedar plaque. Some examples are:
An orange to be divided and shared in alliance with LGTBQ+ equality.
A chocolate or cocoa bean just as a reminder of forced labor is still and a problem today.
Anacardos for troops. Duration It was said that the salty anacardos of the Iraq war provided sustenance and hydration in the Iraq desert climate.
Here is a list of seven elements that the renovated Jews have added.
“Why is tonight different?”
Duration The Seder, the observers read the history of the Easter of the Hagadah (medium account), a book of prayers; The youngest child of the table reads four questions, asking “What makes this night different from all other nights?” And the family responds.
The four questions
In all other nights we eat yeast or yeast bread. On this night, why do we eat only Matzá without yeast?
Answer: To remind us of the hurry with which our ancestors left Egypt.
In all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs. On this night, why only bitter herbs?
Answer: To remind us of the bitterness of slavery.
In all other nights we do not immerse our herbs equally once. On tonight, why do we immerse you twice?
Answer: Some say they remind us of our coming and from Egypt.
In all other nights we eat sometimes sitting and sometimes recliner. On tonight, why do we all recline?
Answer: To remind us how free people relax.
Came
• Four glasses of wine are poured to represent the four internships of the Exodus: freedom, liberation, redemption and liberation.
• Duration of the Seder, the one by the home is open to welcome the prophet Elijah, and a fifth glass of wine is sacrificed.
• Duration The eight days of Easter, observers only eat unleavened bread, Matzá, because their ancestors did not have enough time to let their bread get up before fleeing from Egypt.
• Three pieces of Matzá are placed in the center of the table, which represent three molds of Jews; The intermediate piece is broken in half, and half, the Afikomen, is hidden in the house so that the children hunch after dinner.
Aphikoman means “what is coming later” or “dessert.” This piece will be wrapped and hidden, which is at the end of the food. Aphikoman is a substitute for the sacrifice of Easter, which was the last in Easter food.
Singing “Dayenu”
Many families will sing “Dayenu” to make their seder. The word Dayenu means “it would have been enough.” This cheerful melody celebrates the many blessings that God gave to the Jewish people who revolve his exodus from Egypt in ancient times.
A timeline of the letter or Moses
Moses is significant for many religions. It is a consultation that is taken to the Israelites of slavery in the exodus. He is the most important prophet in Judaism, and one of the most important prophets of Christianity, Islam, the Bahá’í faith and other Abrahamic religions. In the Bible and the Koran, God dictated the Mosaic Law to Moses, who wrote it in the five books of the Torah.
Moses lived to be 120 years old (Deuteronomy 34: 7), but it wasn’t until he was 80 years old (Exodus 7: 7) that God called him to get the Israelites from Egypt.
Religious scholars do not agree on when Moses was born. Rabbinic Judaism calculated a useful life of Moses corresponding to 1391-1271 a. C. or was born in 2377 in the Jewish calendar, the current year is 5785. Some scholars say
The timeline below is 120 years and shows events at an approximate age.
Source: Jewish Virtual Library, Chabad.org, Oxfordchabad.org, Pew Research Center, Brandeis University, reformjudaism.org
