Posted on 03/28/2021 5:23:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Passover began last night. Jews have celebrated this holiday annually since the Biblical Exodus when Moses, with God’s help, liberated the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. For American Jews, last year was a Passover unlike any other and this year’s Passover is beginning to carry ominous overtones of past Passovers in times and places very threatening both to Jews and to all craving individual liberty.
In 2020, for the first time ever in America, Jews were unable to gather for Passover – but they coped. They gathered with family and friends via Zoom, coming together to repeat the ancient rituals, passed down through generations, to remember the blessings of liberty God bestowed upon their people many years ago.
One of those traditions is that Jews recline, or at least sit comfortably, at the Passover table. This simple act of relaxation reminds us of the difference between freedom and slavery. In everything we do at the Seder, we remind ourselves that the Jewish people cherish freedom and fight to protect it.
The Seder also reminds us, though, that we have often lost our freedom in totalitarian nations. From slavery in Egypt, to the Babylon captivity, to the Spanish Inquisition, to Pogroms in Russia and Poland, to the systematic killing of six million Jews in the Holocaust, we have constant and terrible ancestral reminders that we can lose this precious liberty.
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Ping. Why, indeed, are we still where we were for the most part a year ago? It only makes sense if you understand human Sin and frailty!
With a little help I will be painting my door lintels.
Some cherish freedom, and some will pray to be able to explain why we are free, and pray that we are ablt to uphold liberty.
Able to uphold liberty.
The lessons seem to only be learned by some.
Bless Mark Levin.
Bless Lloyd Marcus.
inability of many people to deal with reality + sense of dependency + worship of big government + desire for equality = rejection of freedom
Communism is slavery - a lesson neither learned nor taught by some.
Abortion is not freedom, nor “empowering,” nor “free choice,” nor “health *care*” - though such are lessons taught by some.
One key lesson of Jewish history is the terribly important need to get some control over traitors (erav rev). No people can succeed when they have outright inside their tent ( and Jewish history teaches this lesson over and over again).
Good article! There are many many things we can learn from our Jewish history.
Don’t forget to leave a seat for Elijah.
I’ve studied the (recent) history and learned my lesson - which is when they ANNOUNCE they’re coming for you, and they have the means to do so, don’t wait around to find out if they’re serious. Instead, GET OUT, before other countries shut their doors, not necessarily out of hate (and/or antisemitism, in the case for Jews in the 1930s), but out of fear of being overwhelmed by massive numbers of refugees (after all, we are a big country).
So later, guys, soon I’ll be FReeping from another Socialist country, but not one undergoing a Cultural Revolution at the same time, with the people in charge out for REVENGE.
You know you’re gonna miss all the fun. When they start, BOTH sides get to play.
“You know you’re gonna miss all the fun. When they start, BOTH sides get to play.”
We’ll see, after all we didn’t play very hard on Jan 6. All we managed to do was have a guy wearing horns hang a picture of a black guy sitting on a bed, in the Capitol Rotunda. On the flip side, they showed us their power in our now-tech world, as they hunted down Deplorable after Deplorable, including some here, simply for being in DC that day.
Perhaps from India? Please read:
Our Hindu-Jewish Romance
A few of the reasons why Jews and Hindus enjoy a unique camaraderie in this pluralistic world
Dr. Nathan Katz
Hinduism Today Magazine
April-May-June 2008
Hindus and Jews love each other. We all know that. This does not mean that we love our Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or secular neighbors any the less, but we Jews and Hindus have an instinctual simpatico. I will explain why this is the case.
First, Jews have lived freely in India for perhaps two thousand years. When the Cochin Synagogue celebrated its four hundredth anniversary in 1968, it was a major news event in India. Hindus pride themselves on tolerance, and India’s unique position as the only nation in the world with no anti-Semitism reinforces this cherished self-perception. When Jews come to learn that some of us have lived freely, peacefully and creatively for so long in India, we are surprised and delighted, and we admire Hinduism as the only civilization immune to Jew-hatred. We learn that anti-Semitism is not universal, and that it is possible to preserve Jewish identity and religion in the absence of persecution. For this, we feel deep gratitude.
Second, ours are the two oldest religions in the world. Judaism is the mother of the younger faiths of Christianity and Islam, just as Hinduism is the source of Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Our ancient religions have sacred languages, Sanskrit and Hebrew, and hereditary priesthoods, brahmins and kohanim. We have dietary codes, we purify ourselves in special tanks, and our brides circle their husbands seven times. The ritual parallels seem endless.
The Hindu American community, like the Jewish American community, is enriched by internal pluralism, each group comprising both traditional and secularized people. We encourage our liberals to collaborate, and at the same time we are pleased by interreligious cooperation between swamis and rabbis.
Both Hinduism and Judaism are non-proselytizing faiths, so we find it difficult to understand those who target us for conversion. We are sensitive about monotheistic zealots who besmirch our religions, and we work together to strive against such defamation. In America, Jews are “elder brothers “ of Hindus; as such, we instinctively jump to defend a Hindu community’s plans to build a temple when, as is sometimes the case, local folk object. Jews believe that our freedom of religion is best protected by ensuring that all religious minorities enjoy this same right.
On the traditional side, leading rabbis and swamis recently overcame one thorny issue that has stood in the way of our mutual affection. For the past 1,500 years or more, what in English is called “idolatry “ has Jewish perceptions of Hinduism. Happily, this issue may have been resolved once and for all at a February 2007 dialogue in New Delhi between members of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, a body which speaks with authority in the Jewish world, and the Dharma Acharya Sabha, a similarly august Hindu group. Led respectively by Rabbi Yona Metzger and Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the rabbis and the swamis issued a nine-point statement of principles, the first of which removed the “idolatry “ issue from the table: “Their respective Traditions teach that there is One Supreme Being who is the Ultimate Reality, who has created this world in its blessed diversity and who has communicated Divine ways of action for humanity, for different peoples in different times and places.” This acknowledgement by credible rabbis and swamis that the same G-d is the source of their two faiths is a major step forward for our relationship, enabling our traditionally religious members to join our secular ones in this symbiosis of mutual support and enrichment.
The poet asks, “How do I love thee?” We Hindus and Jews count many ways indeed.
Source:
https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1587
Got this idea maybe it’s weird. Have a Seder performed onstage at Passover season as a theatrical production with music. I mean a real Seder just with some dramatic flair and added stage ambience thrown in.
As a gentile that would be a nice night out and educational too. A lot better than most of the modern crap/garbage we call entertainment.
In supposed ‘free first amendment America’, why is it that any other belief,, ( and i discount mohammedanism from this since that is a complete political theocracy and in such unworthy of discussion), other than Xianity or judaism, is scorned and villified?
Example. Someone other than a Xian (Xmas) opened Congress with the prayer of the day, and a lot of folks were acting like they ate too much Exlax!
If the 1st amendment ain’t for everybody, then its for nobody, right?
There are many online Passover seders, and a number of videos as well, with a wide variance of authenticity.
(In everything we do at the Seder, we remind ourselves that the Jewish people cherish freedom and fight to protect it.)
Their voting history says otherwise.
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