A HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL FELLOW JEWISH FREEPERS,( Peasach starts on Saturday night)

[Naomi4]

I am quoting from Herman Wouk's book, "This is My God," on the Jewish Calendar:

"The Bible says the Jews left Egypt at midnight by the light of the full moon if the spring equinoz, on the fourteenth night of the month Nisan, about thirty-two hundred years ago. This, then, is the night for observing Pesakh, the Passover.

An immediate timing difficulty arises. The Jewish year, like the Mohammedan, has twelve moon months of twenty-nine or thirty days. The year of the sun, which governs the seasons, is about eleven days longer. A moon calendar drifts backward at a rate of about a month every three years. Mohammedans successively observe Ramadan in winter, fall, summer and spring. But the Mosaic law specifies that Passover is a spring holiday; the freedom feast must come in blossom time. The old Jewish solution of this problem was a leap month every few years, proclaimed by the Sanhedrin. When the dispersion destroyed the nation, and communications between centers of learning in exile began to break down, the rabbis worked out a perpetual calendar on a nineteen-year cyle, with seven leap months so arranged as to keep Passover for ever at the equinox. This calendar has the respect of modern astronomers. In nearly two thousand years Passover has not drifted out of the springtime, and in the foreseeable future it will not."

[Uri’el-2012]

SHABBAT SHALOM & PESACH BLESSINGS!

B'Shem Y'shua
chuck

[Texas Termite]

Amen~and~Amen to you dear Simcha.

Our love to you...

Logan, Beth & Nana

[Salem]

Amen, you two. Thanks so much.  

XXXOOO!!

[Dubya]

Ditto. God bless you all.

[gobucks]

"It relates to the destruction of God's name, not writing it, though in some cases destruction can be resonably anticipated, thus the use of G-d"

This is new and thanks ... and helps add details for antipathies some hold toward the RCC .... I could be mistaken, but burning Talmuds at the stake was a common occurance during certain periods of the middle ages ..

[Lijahsbubbe]

Passover isn't exactly meant to be "happy",

Passover is in fact meant to be happy

Two Jews, five opinions...yuk yuk, and blessings to you both! (or all)

[thoughtomator]

We wouldn't be Jews if we didn't have opinions!

[DouglasKC]

As you make yourself ready to celebrate the great holiday of Passover,

Some Christians also observe the holy days of God...enjoy the festival and your matzo!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1389713/posts

[LA Conservative]

"What are the Jewish prophetc gestalts associated with Passover these days?

That is, are there any assumptions or traditions to expect any particular types of prophetic events or Godly interventions around the time of Passover vs other times?
"

Since it doesn't look like anyone replied to your question, I thought I'd take a stab at it. I'm not that religious but I do value tradition, including Christian and Catholic traditions, versus secular relativism. But anyway, here it goes.

One of the differences between Judaism and Christianity is that Jews don't pray for divine intervention. They worship G-d and praise his holiness, but these types of holidays remind people that they alone are responsible for their behavior and the end-results that they get. Passover is the ultimate liberation story of the exodus of Ancient Hebrews from Egypt.

Jews must remember the bitterness and hardship that come with oppression and enslavement, in order to steel themselves against any such future effort to enslave for enslavement (Why some Jews haven't figured out that Socialism is a form of enslavement, I'll address a bit later). Passover is the holiday to do that.

So why in the world are so many of my fellow Jews liberals when Judaism is a very Conservative oriented religion, in my opinion? I don't know other than to think about a phrase that a secular Muslim friend of mine says. For those who fancy themselves as intellectuals, he states that they think they are "smarter than Allah". I think many Jews think they are more intellectual than they really are and are willing to ignore basic truths for the purpose of indulging their own inflated egos.

I hope this helps.

[Quix]

Much appreciated.

I think your assessment is quite true.

Thanks.

[eddiespaghetti]

I don't know how the Easter dates are calculated.

IINM, it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.

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[wai-ming]

I always thought Easter was supposed to coincide with Passover. (Christ's crucifixion occurred at Passover time.)

Question:

Why are the two holy days a month apart this year? Whose calendar is incorrect?

[Salem]

See post no. 108 and 110.

[pabianice]

Great Pesach movie.

[pabianice]

Roses are reddish;

Violets are Bluish;

If it weren't for Christmas;

We'd all be Jewish!

[fortunecookie]

A belated Happy Passover to all our Jewish Freepers and a year full of joy and peace! (I've been away from the computer...)