Hope you all have a Happy Passover! Anyone have any family recipes/traditions they would like to share??

Let me extend a wish for a Happy Passover as well. And yes, do feel free to share traditions/experiences. I am not real knowledgeable on Passover nor with food traditions.





TIS

My warmest wishes for a happy Passover to all of you celebrating.

Bring all leftover matzoh to Home Depot--they make drywall out of it.

A Zeisen Pesach! (a sweet Passover)

Mazel Tov!

So, why did the Hebrews need to designate their homes during the original passover with lamb's blood? Certainly the Lord knew where they lived.

The Lord did know where they lived but the Angel of Death wasn't that familiar with the neighborhood.

Actually, it's the Lord that kills.

The lamb's blood on doorposts was part of a detailed set of commandments God imparted to the Hebrews of Egypt, through Moses. that included slaughtering and consuming a lamb as part of a ritual meal called a seder (Exodus Ch. 12). Certainly God was omniscient, and knew who was and wasn't a Hebrew. But, by requiring Hebrews to observe those rituals (including blood on doorposts), God was requiring Hebrews to positively assert their faith in God and belief that God would deliver them from slavery the very next day.

God is omniscient and omnipotent but grants humanity free choice. Simply sparing the Hebrews because God knew they were Hebrews would hardly constitute free choice by people or affirmation of faith.

However, the purpose of the 10th plague was to provide th e ultimate motivation for the Egyptians to free the hebrews, not to test the free will or faith of the Hebrews.

True. But commentators have noted that the Hebrews had fallen away from their faith during their captivity in Egypt. God was still looking for positive affirmation from the Hebrews that they signed onto the liberation God was providing under Moses's leadership.