Easter Archives - Our Rabbi Jesus https://ourrabbijesus.com/tag/easter/ His Jewish Life and Teaching Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:51:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 31550207 A Modern Day Passover Sacrifice https://ourrabbijesus.com/a-modern-day-passover-sacrifice/ https://ourrabbijesus.com/a-modern-day-passover-sacrifice/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:31:33 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?p=2890 We talk about Jesus as the true lamb of Passover, but moderners have a hard time imagining what that means. We have no mental imagery of what a Temple sacrifice ceremony was like. We know that the disciples joined crowds of other worshipers in the Temple to sacrifice a lamb, which they roasted and ate […]

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]]> https://ourrabbijesus.com/a-modern-day-passover-sacrifice/feed/ 1 2890 The Night of Watching https://ourrabbijesus.com/the-night-of-watching/ https://ourrabbijesus.com/the-night-of-watching/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:37:56 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?p=1787 The “Night of Watching” (Leil Shimurim – ley-EEL shi-mur-EEM) is the name of the night after the Passover feast, when God redeemed Israel by slaying the firstborn sons of Egypt (Exodus 12:42). In Jewish tradition, it is said that “just as God redeemed his people on this night, so he will one day redeem them […]

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