Passover

and is meant to be honoured and celebrated the same as the Christian religion itself is. For example, a famous Jewish holiday is the celebration of Passover, a remembrance of how Moses liberated the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Moses is the most highly regarded human in the Torah, as Jesus is in the New Testament (Deslippe 2011). By celebrating Passover, Christians recognize the miracles and revelations through other figures in the Bible. Likewise, Shavuot, the Jewish celebration of the giving of…

Pharaoh resisted Moses and the will of God. God punished Pharaoh and Egypt with ten plagues (Gen. 7:14 – 12:32). Israel celebrated for the first time the Passover. Pharaoh sent Israel away. The Exodus shape Israel as people of God and in the purpose of God to use His people to be a blessing for the rest of the nations (Exodus 12:1-27, 43-49; 13:1-16). Israel learned to remember “Community,” what YHWH did.…

The overall impact of the Holocaust had a limited effect on the American Jewish people, however, it was able to show itself in the american popular culture agenda, suggest Lipstadt. For example, during Passover, some channels, in America, such as CBS would broadcast religious series pertaining to the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Other channels would also broadcast series that were about the experiences of the Jewish people throughout the Holocaust. Another form of media which…

Motivation Traditional theories of personality are structural accounts of behavior and behaviorists look at past and present behaviors and do not refer to internal structures to account for behavior (Phelps, 2015). Strategies, plans, goals, values, and other constructs, are considered characteristic adaptations that are mainly associated with motivational aspects (McAdams & Olson, 2010). According to many personality psychologists, people are self-regulating and organize their lives around…

Throughout the book Deuteronomy chapter 6, different themes presented are; those themes include Exodus, Passover, righteousness, Torah, redeemer, covenant, and election. The themes correspond to the self-understanding of the Israelites. The first term Exodus means “‘going out’”, the events before and after the Israelites were freed from slavery is in the Exodus (Frigge 60). It shapes the self-understanding of the Israelites community through the narration of those events and the Exodus…

Historians like Harold Marcuse argue that there is now a “new genre or commemorative art distinct from older forms” and he argues that memorials today contain multiple meanings. Marcuse actually argues that the memorials of Majdanek concentration camp and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were created in order to show resistance. Marcuse further argues that memorials created right after the liberation of death camps in Nazi Germany hold ultimate significance as they were created to leave an…

Jewish community. There was also much political corruption in Russia and Malamud exposes the anti-Semitic leaders. In the novel, Malamud discusses the prejudices against Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman who is accused of murdering a Christian boy during Passover. Bok was accused of murdering the boy due to being Jewish and was charged without any substantial evidence. The novel is based on the true story of Mendel Beilis, who was accused of the same crime. Beilis was acquitted of his crimes, but the…

their sacrifices out of the Temple. Jesus stated in Matthew 21:13, “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers”. According to Linder when Jesus came through Jerusalem it was during the time of the celebration of Passover. During this time of high tension it did not take much to provoke the Roman officials. When it came to the crucifixion of Jesus, Linder states, “That during the first century under Roman law it was not uncommon for a crucifixion to take…

follow in the ceremony of the Passover. Specifically, there was to be a perfect lamb without spot or blemish which would be eaten and the blood of which would be spread along the doorframe of the Israelites’ houses. Seeing the blood on the doorframes, God would spare the firstborns of those who marked their houses but would bring judgment upon those who did not. In the New Testament, 1 Peter 1 and John 19 establish that Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of the Passover requirements. He was…

The boys of Viznitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak went to help their Rabbi clean his house for Passover. While the boys were working a dish broke. The Rebbetzin was very upset and asked which boy did it. The Rabbi heard the question and came running from the next room saying in a joking manner, "don't tell!". The boys learned that honesty isn't always the proper way. Knowing who broke the dish wouldn't solve the problem anyway so there's no gain from embarrassing him. Having learned this important…