From the Temple Institute:
"The festival of Passover which begins immediately after Shabbat commemorates Israel's miraculous exodus from Egypt. It is this extraordinary event that marks the birth of Israel as a nation. "Has any god ever miraculously come to take for himself a nation from amidst a nation… such as everything that the L-rd your G-d did for you in Egypt before your eyes?" (Deut. 4:34)
Turning our backs on Egyptian idolatry and slavery, we headed towards Mount Sinai and our eternal covenant with G-d. Nothing can ever change that covenant, and no force – external or internal – can change or alter Israel's destiny: to be "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (Ex. 19:6)."
Check out their cool online story Shlomo's Passover Adventure
Me: May we soon merit to rejoice in Jerusalem for all our festivals. Amen.
1 comment:
Surprised to see you describe Passover as marking the BIRTH of Israel as a nation.
While it was indisputably a critical moment in Jewish history, Israel existed as a nation well before the Passover (Exodus 8:1 has Moses calling Israel a "people.")
And if you would not recognize the existance of the Nation of Israel prior to the Passover, then you cannot call Israel a true Nation until after crossing of the Red Sea, when its independence was certain.
No, the Passover is meaningful, but you've attached the wrong meaning.
IMHO.
--a fascinated reader
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