The Passover of the L-RD - פסח

Feasts of the L-RD

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between sundown and complete darkness, comes the Passover of the L-RD. On the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of unleavened bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to have a holy convocation; don’t do any kind of ordinary work. Bring an offering made by fire to the L-RD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; do not do any ordinary work.Leviticus 23:5-8

What is Passover?

Recalls the story of Moses and the deliverance of slavery from Egypt

The blood will serve as a sign marking the house where you are; when I see the blood I will pass over you – when I strike the land of Egypt, the death blow will not strike you. This will be a day that you remember and celebrate as a festival to the L –RD, from generation to generation you are to celebrate it as a perpetual regulation. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread – on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leaven from the first to the seventh days is to be cut off from the people of Israel. Exodus 12:13-15

Passover is also a prophetic depiction of Jesus and the

deliverance of slavery from sin.

1. Cleansing the home

Passover preporations

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know the saying, “it takes only a little bit of leaven to leaven the whole batch of dough?” Get rid of the old leaven, so that you can become a new batch of dough, for in reality you are unleavened. For our Passover lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed. So let us celebrate the Seder not with leftover leaven of wickedness and evil, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.1 Corinthians 5:6-8

2. Lighting the holiday candles: welcoming the Light of G-D.

3. Sanctifying the time: dedicating the holiday to G-D

4.The first cup: Sanctification

5. Hand washing: leaving sin behind

6. First element: Karpas/parsley remembering slavery.

7.Second element: Matza (bread of affliction).

8. Teaching the children: producing King’s kids.

1. Four questions

2. Telling the story of the Exodus

3. Reciting the plagues of Egypt

4. Explaining the seder elements.

9. Second cup: Plagues (in the World, but not of it).

10. Partaking of the elements: crossing from bitterness to

sweetness.

Eat matza first with maror (bitter herbs and then with Choroset ( mix of wine, honey, milk and nuts.

11. Sing “Dayenu” (It would have been enough).

Had He merely rescued us, but not judged the Egyptians, dayenu!

Had He only destroyed their gods, but not parted the Red Sea, dayenu!

Had he drowned our enemies, but not fed us with manna, dayenu!

If He led us through the desert, but not given us the Sabbath, dayenu!

If He had given us Torah, but not the Land of Israel, dayenu!

12. Passover meal: the great sacrifice.

13. The return of the Afekoman: our hope.

14. The third cup: Redemption

For what I received from the L-RD is just what I passed on to you, that the L-RD JESUS, on the night He was betrayed, took bread; and after He made the blessing He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you, do this as a memorial to me”; likewise also the cup after the meal saying, “This cup is the New Covenant effected by My blood; do this; as often as you drink it, as a memorial to me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the L-RD, until He comes.I Corinthians 11:23-26

15. Fourth cup: cup of Elijah

Look, I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the L-RD.

Malachi 4:5

16. Hallel (songs of praise)

17. Geeting:

L’shanah ha-ba’ah Yerushalayim!

Next year in Jerusalem!