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Caption transcript for The Miracle of Passover (2007): Part 1 (1/2)

• 00:18 PASSOVER, THE CROWN JEWEL OF BIBLICAL FEASTS,
• 00:22 SACRED TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ALIKE.
• 00:25 TAUGHT SINCE THE EXODUS 35 CENTURIES AGO
• 00:29 AND REVERED IN THE LORD'S SUPPER, COMMUNION, THE EUCHARIST
• 00:33 AND BY ALL PEOPLES WHO RESPECT THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS.
• 00:37 HERE IS PASSOVER
• 00:39 IN ALL ITS GLORY.
• 00:47 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:49 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:52 SHALOM. WELCOME.
• 00:53 WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT PASSOVER
• 00:55 AND WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS
• 00:56 THE BLESSINGS THAT PASSOVER BRINGS TO US
• 00:58 IS OUR CHRISTIANITY AND OUR JEWISHNESS.
• 01:00 YES, VERY FAMOUS STORY, "PASSOVER"
• 01:02 AS IT'S THE CENTERPIECE OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.
• 01:05 AND IT SO WELL RELATES TO THE STORY OF JESUS.
• 01:08 IT'S WONDERFUL!
• 01:08 IT IS THE ESSENCE OF OUR CHRISTIANITY,
• 01:10 THE SACRIFICE, THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB
• 01:13 FOR THE ISRAELITES AND FOR US AS BELIEVERS.
• 01:15 WHEN ZOLA WAS 4 MONTHS OLD HE PARTICIPATED IN HIS FIRST PASSOVER.
• 01:19 32 YEARS LATER HE UNDERSTOOD THE FULL MEANING OF PASSOVER.
• 01:25 HERE'S ZOLA AND PASSOVER.
• 01:27 THE TABLE BESIDE ME HAS BEEN SET THIS WAY FOR 3500 YEARS.
• 01:32 THAT'S ON A SCALE WHERE
• 01:33 OUR COUNTRY IS A LITTLE OVER
• 01:35 200 HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
• 01:36 PASSOVER IS FAR AND AWAY THE WORLD'S OLDEST FESTIVAL.
• 01:39 IT'S THE FIRST OF THE FEASTS THAT GOD GAVE MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI
• 01:43 AND IT HAS BEEN CELEBRATED ALL THAT TIME THROUGH THOSE MILLENNIA,
• 01:47 THROUGH THE INQUISITIONS, THE CRUSADES, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
• 01:51 EVERYWHERE THE JEWS WERE, PASSOVER WAS ALWAYS CELEBRATED.
• 01:56 IT'S INTERESTING WHEN WE LOOK BACK TO THE SLAVERY IN EGYPT
• 01:59 BECAUSE THERE WAS 400 YEARS OF SILENCE DURING THAT SLAVERY
• 02:03 AND IN THAT TIME GOD SAID NOTHING TO HIS PEOPLE
• 02:07 BUT AT THE END OF IT THERE WAS A SUDDEN BLOOD SACRIFICE, THE LAMB OF EGYPT
• 02:11 AND HE EMANCIPATED THE ENTIRE NATION IN A SINGLE NIGHT, A DRAMATIC EVENT.
• 02:19 THEN SCRIPTURE CAME OUT, PROPHETS PREACHED AND KINGS RULED
• 02:24 AND FINALLY THERE WAS 400 MORE YEARS OF SILENCE AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 02:29 LEADING UP TO ANOTHER GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE, THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 02:35 THAT SHOULD REALLY HAVE BEEN A VERY GREAT HINT TO ISRAEL.
• 02:38 WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST SAW JESUS COMING HE SAID,
• 02:40 "BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD".
• 02:44 SO, AFTER ANOTHER 400 YEARS SILENCE, THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB AGAIN.
• 02:50 WHICHEVER TESTAMENT I READ, OLD OR NEW I CAN SAY,
• 02:52 "THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB DELIVERS ME FROM BONDAGE".
• 02:56 WELL, WHY DO WE DO THIS PASSOVER?
• 02:59 WHY DO WE GO THROUGH THE WHOLE CEREMONY? WHY IS THIS WORTH KNOWING?
• 03:02 FOR ONE THING, THE LORD DID THIS ON HIS LAST EARTHLY NIGHT.
• 03:06 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS YOU MIGHT DO TONIGHT
• 03:09 IF YOU WERE GOING ON TRIAL FOR YOUR LIFE IN THE MORNING.
• 03:11 THIS IS WHAT HE CHOSE TO DO. HE FELT THIS FEAST WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
• 03:15 AND SECONDLY, HE SAID AT THE TABLE, "DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.";
• 03:20 PARTICULARLY IN REFERENCE TO THE CUP AND THE BREAD THAT HE SERVED HIS DISCIPLES.
• 03:25 AND SO WE STILL DO IN THE LORD'S SUPPER, IN COMMUNION, IN THE EUCHARIST,
• 03:30 AND OF COURSE IN PASSOVER.
• 03:31 UNKNOWINGLY THE JEWS TAKE THE WINE AND THE BREAD JUST THE SAME.
• 03:35 SO THE LORD SAID TO DO IT AND WE DO IT BUT WE SHOULD ONCE IN A WHILE LOOK AT THE WHOLE FEAST
• 03:41 AND SEE HOW THIS BREAD AND WINE COMES OUT OF THE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF THE FEAST.
• 03:47 AND THEN, THE LORD, WHEN HE PUT DOWN HIS CUP SAID,
• 03:50 "I'LL NOT DRINK OF THIS WINE UNTIL I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM."
• 03:55 THAT EXPRESSION, "THIS WINE" "Yayim", IT'S A SPECIAL GLASS OF WINE
• 04:00 BECAUSE WINE FOR PASSOVER IS DIFFERENT THAN FOR THE YEAR ROUND.
• 04:04 SO HE IMPLIED THAT WE WILL BE DOING PASSOVER IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 04:10 SO IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS FEAST
• 04:12 WE MIGHT RUN THROUGH IT ONCE HERE AND WE'LL BE MORE READY.
• 04:16 (Audience laughing)
• 04:16 NOW WHEN WE PREPARE FOR THE KINGDOM WE HAVE A LOT OF FESTIVALS IN MIND
• 04:23 BUT THIS ONE IS THE CROWN JEWEL.
• 04:24 THIS WAS THE FIRST, IT'S ON THE FIRST FULL MOON OF SPRING,
• 04:27 IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE QUITE A THRILL WHEN WE GO THERE.
• 04:31 BUT WE SHOULD KNOW WE CAN'T JUST SET UP A TABLE AND START INTO PASSOVER.
• 04:35 THE GOSPEL SPEAKS OF A WHOLE DAY OF PREPARATION. SEVERAL THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE.
• 04:41 FOR ONE THING, IN THE JEWISH HOUSEHOLD YOU HAVE TO CHANGE OVER ALL OF THE DISHES.
• 04:46 YOU CAN'T USE YEAR ROUND DISHES ON PASSOVER.
• 04:48 NOW, THE ORTHODOX JEWISH WOMAN, REALLY KEEPING THE LAW, HAS FOUR SETS OF DISHES GOING
• 04:54 BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SEPARATE MILK AND MEAT THE YEAR ROUND.
• 04:58 A DISH THAT HELD A HAMBURGER CAN NEVER HOLD ICE CREAM IN ITS CAREER.
• 05:02 ONE IS FOREVER MILK AND ONE IS FOREVER MEAT AND THAT IS THEIR TRADITION
• 05:06 AND SO THERE ARE TWO SETS OF DISHES GOING ALL THE TIME.
• 05:09 BUT THEN ON PASSOVER THEY'VE GOT TO WASH UP THOSE TWO SETS
• 05:12 AND POTS AND PANS AND SILVER AND GLASSWARE AND EVERYTHING AND PUT IT ALL AWAY,
• 05:17 LOCK IT UP FOR THE EIGHT DAY FESTIVAL AND BRING OUT THE PASSOVER SET UP.
• 05:21 THAT'S TWO MORE SETS OF DISHES, AND POTS AND PANS AND GLASSWARE AND SILVER AND SO ON.
• 05:26 AND ALL OF THAT OF COURSE HAS TO BE WASHED UP, IT HASN'T BEEN USED FOR A YEAR, AND SET OUT.
• 05:31 SO IT'S A DAY OF DISHWASHING TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 05:35 (Audience laughing).
• 05:36 AND WHEN THE PASSOVER THINGS COME OUT IT'S THE MOST SPLENDID THINGS.
• 05:39 EVERY WOMAN IS PROUD OF HER PASSOVER SET UP
• 05:41 AND IT'S A CHANCE TO USE YOUR WEDDING PRESENTS AND THE THINGS YOU NEVER USE,
• 05:46 THE FINEST STUFF THAT SHE HAS.
• 05:48 THEN WHEN THE DISHES HAVE ALL BEEN CHANGED OVER WE PURGE THE LEAVEN OUT OF THE KITCHEN,
• 05:55 WE GET THE BREAD CRUMBS AND THE COOKIE CRUMBS AND THE TWINKIE WRAPPERS
• 05:58 AND EVERYTHING OUT OF THERE, CLEAN THE BREAD BOARD WITH A TOOTHPICK
• 06:02 BECAUSE LEAVEN IN THE BIBLE IS SIN.
• 06:06 I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 7, PAUL SAID,
• 06:07 "PURGE OUT THE OLD LEAVEN AND BECOME A NEW LUMP FOR CHRIST OUR PASSOVER IS SACRIFICED FOR US."
• 06:12 WHEN THEY ATE THE UNLEAVENED BREAD IN THE EXODUS IT WAS A WAY OF BEING DELIVERABLE.
• 06:18 THEY ATE PURE BREAD AND THEY BECAME PURE. AND SO WE GET THE LEAVEN OUT OF THE HOUSE.
• 06:24 THEY MAKE A GAME OUT OF IT, THEY PUT CRUMBS OF LEAVEN ON THE BOOKCASES AND THE FURNITURE
• 06:29 AND THEY SEND THE LITTLE CHILDREN OUT TO LOOK FOR IT
• 06:32 AND WHEN THEY FIND SOME OF THE CRUMBS OF LEAVEN THEY CALL FATHER
• 06:35 AND HE COMES WITH A FEATHER AND A WOODEN SPOON
• 06:37 AND HE BRUSHES SOME OF THE CRUMBS OF LEAVEN INTO THE SPOON WITH THE FEATHER,
• 06:42 TAKES THEM TO THE FIREPLACE, THROWS THEM IN THE FIRE.
• 06:44 AND SO THE LITTLE CHILDREN SEE THE JUDGMENT OF SINS, ALL THOSE LITTLE CRUMBS ARE LITTLE SINS
• 06:49 AND THEY'RE ALL BURNED UP TO BE READY FOR PASSOVER.
• 06:51 IT ALSO GETS THE FATHER AND THE CHILDREN OUT OF THE KITCHEN DURING ALL THIS DISHWASHING.
• 06:57 (Audience laughing).
• 06:59 THEN THE THIRD THING WE DO IS FATHER DONS THIS KITTEL,
• 07:05 THIS ROBE, A WHITE ROBE
• 07:07 WHICH IS THE ROBE OF THE ORDINARY PRIEST IN THE TABERNACLE,
• 07:11 THE ROBE THAT HE WORE AS HE CONTINUED TO SACRIFICE.
• 07:14 HIS HANDS WERE ALWAYS IN THE BLOOD SO HE COULD WEAR PURE WHITE.
• 07:17 OTHERWISE ROBES HAVE TO BE SEWN WITH RED, BLUE, PURPLE, THE COLORS OF THE LORD.
• 07:23 BUT PURE WHITE DENOTES ONGOING RIGHTEOUSNESS, PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• 07:28 THIS IS WHAT WE'LL WHERE WHEN MARRY THE LORD.
• 07:32 REVELATION CHAPTER 19, VERSES 7 AND 8,
• 07:33 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES TO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB."
• 07:36 "THE WIFE OF CHRIST HATH MADE HERSELF READY"
• 07:39 "AND UNTO HER WAS APPOINTED FINE LINEN,
• 07:41 "CLEAN AND WHITE WHICH IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SAINTS. SO BEHOLD YOUR WEDDING DRESS."
• 07:47 WE'LL ALL WEAR THIS WHEN WE MARRY THE LORD.
• 07:49 FATHER PUTS IT ON TO BRING SOME OF THE TEMPLE HOME.
• 07:52 PASSOVER'S A HOME HOLIDAY, YOM KIPPUR, OR ROSH HASHANAH, THE HIGH FESTIVALS IN THE FALL
• 07:59 ARE SYNAGOGUE HOLIDAYS, RATHER LIKE IN CHRISTIANITY;
• 08:02 MAYBE WE THINK OF CHRISTMAS OR THANKSGIVING, THAT SORT OF HOLIDAY AS A HOME GATHERING.
• 08:08 BUT EASTER IS THAT TIME YOU GET TO CHURCH
• 08:11 AND YOU SEE THE PEOPLE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE THE LAST EASTER.
• 08:14 THAT'S A CHURCH HOLIDAY.
• 08:16 SO FATHER BRINGS A LITTLE OF HIS CHURCH HOME, SO TO SAY.
• 08:19 HE BRINGS A TABERNACLE ROBE INTO THE HOUSE, AND A MITRE,
• 08:22 AND WEARS THE COSTUME OF THE TABERNACLE.
• 08:25 THIS IS A 35 CENTURY OLD COSTUME. IMAGINE.
• 08:28 AND ALL ROBES OF ALL CHURCHES, ALL SYNAGOGUES ORIGINATE WITH THIS ONE.
• 08:34 WELL, FINALLY IT'S TIME TO GET TO THE TABLE, IT'S SUNDOWN AND IT'S TIME TO START THE SERVICE
• 08:41 AND WE START IT WITH THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES.
• 08:44 NOW, YOU MAY ASK WHY A WOMAN ALWAYS LIGHTS THE CANDLES IN JUDAISM AND THAT'S TRUE.
• 08:51 WOMEN HAVE NO OTHER RITUAL WORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY,
• 08:53 THEY DON'T SIT WITH THE MEN IN THE SYNAGOGUES,
• 08:55 THEY DON'T PRAY, THEY DON'T HAVE TO PRAY, THEY MAY PRAY
• 08:58 BUT THEIR FATHER OR BROTHER OR SONS CONFESSIONS ARE EFFICACIOUS FOR THEM AND SO ON,
• 09:03 BUT YOU CAN'T START ANY SERVICE, SABBATH OR PASSOVER WITHOUT A WOMAN LIGHTING THE CANDLES
• 09:11 AND WE ASK WHY AND THE ANSWER OF COURSE IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 09:16 WHEN YOU HAVE AN OLD TESTAMENT QUESTION THE ANSWER IS IN THE NEW TYPICALLY.
• 09:19 THE BIBLE IS A BOOK WITH THE ANSWERS IN THE BACK. (Audience laughing).
• 09:24 WE CAN REMEMBER THAT A WOMAN BROUGHT US THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 09:31 YOU MAY SAY, "WELL WE'RE ALL BORN OF A WOMAN. GOD USED A WOMAN TO BRING US HIS SON"
• 09:39 "BUT AREN'T WE ALL BORN OF A WOMAN?"
• 09:40 NOT REALLY. ADAM AND EVE WEREN'T BORN.
• 09:43 GOD SHOWED THAT HE COULD MAKE PEOPLE OF EITHER MODEL,
• 09:46 SET THEM GOING. THEY WERE ADULTS. THEY WERE NEVER BABIES.
• 09:50 SO WHY DIDN'T HE DO IT WITH THE LORD?
• 09:52 I MEAN, LOOK HOW THE LORD HAD TO GROW UP IN GALILEE AND VISITED THE TEMPLE,
• 09:57 GOT IN TROUBLE WITH HIS FAMILY WHEN HE GOT LOST
• 09:59 IN DISCUSSING THE SCRIPTURES IN THE TEMPLE WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD.
• 10:03 THEN THERE'S A LONG SILENCE TILL HE'S THIRTY.
• 10:04 YOU KNOW WE WOULDN'T HAVE MISSED MUCH IF HE WERE MADE IN HEAVEN OUT OF SOME HEAVENLY STUFF
• 10:09 AND SENT DOWN HERE AT THIRTY YEARS OLD.
• 10:11 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD HAVE ANSWERED HIS CALLING.
• 10:15 HE HAS TO BE FLESH LIKE OUR FLESH IN ORDER TO BE A PROPER SACRIFICE FOR US.
• 10:21 DON'T YOU SEE IF A PASTOR SAID "WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS"
• 10:26 AND HE WERE MADE IN HEAVEN OUT OF SOME HEAVENLY STUFF, THERE'S YOUR EXCUSE. YOU WOULD SAY,
• 10:31 "WELL I WASN'T MADE IN HEAVEN OUT OF SOME HEAVENLY STUFF;"
• 10:35 "JESUS DOESN'T REALLY KNOW MY PROBLEMS."
• 10:36 WE DON'T HAVE THAT "OUT". HE WAS BORN OF A WOMAN JUST AS WE ARE AND HE DID NOT SIN.
• 10:44 HE WON THIS BATTLE IN THIS EQUIPMENT.
• 10:47 HE GOT TIRED, HE GOT HUNGRY, HE WEPT, IT HURT TO BE CRUCIFIED.
• 10:52 HE WAS DEPRESSED WHEN HE HEARD OF LAZARUS' DEATH.
• 10:55 HE WAS LIKE US; HE WAS MAN WITH A MAN'S FEELINGS, A MAN'S SENSITIVITIES.
• 11:00 THE GOSPEL SAID HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL THINGS JUST AS WE ARE AND YET HE DID NOT SIN.
• 11:06 THOUGH HE WAS BORN OF A WOMAN TELLS US THAT HE'S THE ADEQUATE SACRIFICE FOR US.
• 11:13 A SECOND REASON, IT WAS A NOTICED BIRTH.
• 11:16 I MEAN, LET'S TELL IT LIKE IT IS.
• 11:17 HERE IS MARIA, A GIRL, WE'D SAY A NINTH GRADE GIRL,
• 11:21 SHE'S NINE MONTH'S PREGNANT AND SHE'S TRAVELING FROM NAZARETH TO BETHLEHEM,
• 11:27 MY GOODNESS, DOWN TO THE JORDAN RIVER VALLEY UP TO JERUSALEM
• 11:29 AND OVER TO BETHLEHEM IS A 75 MILE RIDE, I SUPPOSE, ON A DONKEY. AND THAT'S NOT EASY.
• 11:37 AND THEN SHE GETS TO BETHLEHEM.
• 11:38 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BETHLEHEM BUT IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
• 11:41 BETHLEHEM'S JUST A CROSSROADS. THERE WAS ONE HOTEL THERE THEN, THERE' ONE THERE NOW.
• 11:49 YOU CAN NEVER GET A ROOM AT THE INN.
• 11:52 (Audience laughing).
• 11:53 THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR HER TO STAY AND SO SHE HAD HER BABY IN A CAVE.
• 11:57 WE MAKE A BARN OUT OF THIS THING WHEN WE GET IT OVER HERE,
• 12:00 BUT THEY DON'T HAVE WOODEN BUILDINGS ISRAEL, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TREES FOR THAT.
• 12:04 IT WAS A CAVE WHERE THE ANIMALS WERE KEPT,
• 12:05 THEY HAD A FIRE AT THE MOUTH OF THE CAVE TO KEEP PREDATORS AWAY
• 12:08 AND SHE HAD TO LAY HER NEWBORN BABY IN A MANGER.
• 12:11 MY GOODNESS, YOU WOULDN'T REALLY WANT TO LAY A NEWBORN BABY IN A MANGER.
• 12:15 YOU PEOPLE THAT GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY KNOW WHAT A MANGER IS.
• 12:17 IT'S WHERE THE ANIMALS EAT. IT'S A STONE TROUGH. IT'S COLD AND HARD AND IT'S NOT CLEAN.
• 12:23 BUT THAT WAS THE CHOICE, OTHERWISE, THE FLOOR OF THE CAVE.
• 12:28 AND THAT'S HOW WE GOT THE SON OF GOD.
• 12:30 WHAT TROUBLE GOD WENT THROUGH. WHAT TROUBLE MARY WENT THROUGH.
• 12:33 BUT LET ME SAY THIS, BETHLEHEM WAS A VERY SMALL TOWN.
• 12:37 THERE WERE ONLY 400 FAMILIES LIVING IN BETHLEHEM WHEN JESUS WAS BORN THERE.
• 12:43 WELL, WHEN SOMETHING LIKE A GIRL RIDING INTO TO TOWN ON A DONKEY
• 12:47 AND HAVING A BABY IN A CAVE BY THE HOTEL GOES ON.
• 12:50 WHY THAT'S A STORY IN A SMALL TOWN. THAT'S SOMETHING THEY REMEMBER
• 12:54 AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THEY REMEMBER IT
• 12:55 BECAUSE 30 YEARS LATER WHEN AN HONEST SEEKER LIKE NICODEMUS MIGHT COME TO THAT TOWN AND SAY,
• 13:01 "I'VE HEARD THIS MAN PREACH. THEY SAY HE'S MESSIAH. I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MISTAKE."
• 13:05 "THE PROPHET MICAH SAID MESSIAH WOULD BE BORN IN YOUR LITTLE TOWN."
• 13:09 "THIS FELLOW FROM GALILEE, CAN YOU REMEMBER WAS HE BORN HERE?"
• 13:15 THEY WOULD SAY, "WELL WHO COULD FORGET IT?"
• 13:18 "OF COURSE HE WAS BORN HERE. WE ALL REMEMBER THAT."
• 13:21 AND SOMEONE MIGHT SAY, "WELL, IS HE OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH?"
• 13:26 "WELL YES, THEY CAME DOWN FOR THE TAX COLLECTION."
• 13:28 "THEY HAD TO COME TO THEIR OWN PRECINCT. THEY WERE BOTH OF JUDAH, JOSEPH AND MARY."
• 13:33 SOMEONE MIGHT SAY, "WELL THEY SAID HE WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN."
• 13:35 THEY'D SAY, "WELL WE COULD TELL YOU SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL,"
• 13:39 "THEY WEREN'T MARRIED YET, SHE WAS A GOOD GIRL."
• 13:41 AND THERE WOULD BE A LOT OF EVIDENCE OF HOW TO RECEIVE THE MESSIAH.
• 13:45 SO FOR THOSE REASONS I THINK GOD USED A WOMAN TO BRING US THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 13:51 AND SO A WOMAN, AFTER THIS BREAK, WILL BRING THE LIGHT TO THE PASSOVER TABLE.
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• 14:49 THE WOMAN FACTORED SIGNIFICANT INTO THE RELIGION INTO THE HOME, YES?
• 14:53 THEY DO, THEY'RE VERY HOMEBOUND.
• 14:55 I LIKE WHAT THEY DO IN THE CEREMONIES.
• 14:58 THEY LIGHT THE CANDLES.
• 14:59 THE CANDLES BEING THEY ARE BRINGING THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD INTO OUR LIVES.
• 15:03 YES, IN SO MANY IN FACT WOMEN ARE EXEMPTED FROM SYNAGOGUE PARTICIPATION
• 15:09 BUT AS IS EVIDENCED IN THE PASSOVER
• 15:11 THE WOMAN IS THE ONE THAT INAUGURATES AND BRINGS IT IN.
• 15:15 ABSOLUTELY.
• 15:15 HERE'S MORE OF "PASSOVER".
• 15:28 ♪ Baruch atah Ado-nai, ♪
• 15:31 ♪ Ehlo-haynu Melech Ha-olam, ♪
• 15:36 ♪ asher kideshanu b'mitzvotav ♪
• 15:41 ♪ v'tzeevanu l'hadlik ♪
• 15:44 ♪ nershel Yom Tov ♪
• 15:50 AMEN. THANK YOU.
• 15:51 NOW THAT THE CANDLES ARE AT THE TABLE, THAT IS, THE LIGHT IS WITH US, THE MESSIAH IS HERE,
• 15:56 IT'S TIME TO START THE PASSOVER IN EARNEST.
• 15:59 AND WE BEGIN WITH THE FIRST CUP. THERE WILL BE FOUR CUPS OF WINE.
• 16:05 EACH ONE HAVING A DIFFERENT SIGNIFICANCE.
• 16:07 THIS ONE'S CALLED "THE CUP OF SANCTIFICATION".
• 16:09 FATHER LOOKS AT THE TABLE, MAKES SURE EVERYTHING'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE, ITS SANCTIFIED,
• 16:13 EVERYBODY LISTENS TO THE BLESSING OF THE WINE AND SIPS OF THAT CUP.
• 16:18 NOW SINCE WE'RE DOING THIS FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE AND VILLAGE TO VILLAGE FOR 35 CENTURIES
• 16:24 IT MIGHT START TO VARY AND THINGS MIGHT BE PUT IN DIFFERENT PLACE
• 16:28 AND DIFFERENT THINGS MIGHT CREEP IN. SOME HAVE.
• 16:31 AND WE HAVE A BOOK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW THE ORIGINAL.
• 16:36 THIS IS THE HAGGADAH, IT'S A BEST SELLER, IT CAME OUT DURING THE EXODUS.
• 16:39 IT OPENS THIS WAY BECAUSE ENGLISH BOOKS OPEN BACKWARDS. (Audience laughing)
• 16:45 AND IN HERE WE HAVE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO SET THE TABLE.
• 16:49 THIS IS A PARTICULARLY FINE OLD HAGGADAH,
• 16:53 AN ANCIENT MASTERPIECE, IN FACT,
• 16:55 AND IT TELLS THE PRAYERS IN THE ORDER OF THE SERVICE,
• 16:59 THE STORY OF THE EXODUS OF COURSE, THE PLAGUES AND EVERYTHING.
• 17:01 AND FATHER LOOKS IN THERE AND COMPARES THE PICTURES WITH THE TABLE TO KNOW THAT EVERYTHING IS QUITE CORRECT.
• 17:09 NOW, NEXT HE DOES A PECULIAR CEREMONY WITH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD.
• 17:13 THIS IS CALLED "THE HIDING OF THE AFIKOMAN", THAT'S A GREEK WORD WITH REFERENCE TO THE LORD.
• 17:21 BUT HE TAKES THREE OF THESE LOAVES OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
• 17:24 AND HE TAKES A SPECIAL BAG WHICH HAS THREE COMPARTMENTS.
• 17:30 ALL THE THINGS OF PASSOVER ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
• 17:33 WOMEN ARE VERY PROUD OF THEIR SET UP AND PART OF THAT SET UP IS THESE LINENS AND CLOTHES.
• 17:41 I'M PUTTING ONE PIECE OF UNLEAVENED BREAD IN EACH COMPARTMENT
• 17:46 JUST SIMPLY TO SEPARATE THEM INTO A STACK OF THREE.
• 17:50 AND NOW THAT THERE IS A DISTINCT STACK OF THE THREE,
• 17:52 FATHER SAYS THE BLESSING OVER THAT BREAD AND THEN HE REMOVES THE MIDDLE PIECE.
• 18:06 HE BREAKS IT.
• 18:10 HE WRAPS IT.
• 18:14 AN IMPROVEMENT SINCE JESUS' TIME.
• 18:19 AND HE HIDES IT AWAY.
• 18:20 MY FATHER USED TO PUT IT BEHIND THE CUSHION ON HIS CHAIR.
• 18:24 HE DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHAT HE'S DONE BUT HE'LL COME BACK TO IT LATER. SO WE'LL GO RIGHT ON.
• 18:29 THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE SERVICE
• 18:31 IS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER PRESENT ASKS FOUR QUESTIONS,
• 18:35 FOUR KEY QUESTIONS THAT IS GOING TO GIVE THE FATHER HIS CUE TO TELL THE PASSOVER STORY ONCE AGAIN.
• 18:43 AND EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE AT THIS.
• 18:45 THAT WHETHER A BOY OR A GIRL, WHEN YOU WERE THE YOUNGEST CHILD YOU ASK THE FOUR QUESTIONS.
• 18:50 AND WE HAVE THE HELP THIS TIME OF NATHAN EISENBERG WHO WILL CHANT THE QUESTIONS FOR US.
• 19:02 GO ON NATHAN.
• 19:04 ♪ Mah nishtanah ha-lahylah ha-zeh ♪
• 19:06 ♪ mi-kol ha-layloht, ♪
• 19:10 ♪ mi-kol ha-layloht? ♪
• 19:13 ♪ She-b'khol ha-layloht ♪
• 19:16 ♪ anu okhlin ♪
• 19:17 ♪ chameytz u-matzah, ♪
• 19:20 ♪ chameytz u-matzah. ♪
• 19:24 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 19:25 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 19:27 ♪ kooloh matzah? ♪
• 19:31 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 19:33 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 19:36 ♪ kooloh matzah? ♪
• 19:39 ♪ She-b'khol ha-layloht ♪
• 19:41 ♪ anu okhlin sh'ar y'rakot, ♪
• 19:47 ♪ sh'ar y'rakot. ♪
• 19:51 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 19:55 ♪ maror? ♪
• 20:01 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh,
• 20:03 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, maror? ♪
• 20:08 ♪ She-b'khol ha-layloht ♪
• 20:10 ♪ ayn anu mat'bilin ♪
• 20:12 ♪ afilu pa'am echat, ♪
• 20:15 ♪ afilu pa'am echat. ♪
• 20:18 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:20 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:22 ♪ sh'tay p'amim? ♪
• 20:25 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:27 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:29 ♪ sh'tay p'amim? ♪
• 20:32 ♪ She-b'khol ha-layloht ♪
• 20:34 ♪ anu okhlin ♪
• 20:36 ♪bayn yosh'bin u'vayn m'soobin,♪
• 20:39 ♪bayn yosh'bin u'vayn m'soobin.♪
• 20:42 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:45 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:46 ♪ koolanu m'soobin? ♪
• 20:50 ♪ Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:52 ♪ ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ♪
• 20:54 ♪ koolanu m'soobin? ♪
• 20:57 AMEN. THANK YOU! (Audience clapping).
• 21:01 THANKS NATHAN.
• 21:05 (Zola laughing) WELL, WHAT DID HE SAY? (Audience laughing)
• 21:09 BASICALLY, "Mah nishtanah ha-lahylah ha-zeh",
• 21:11 "HOW IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS?"
• 21:14 WELL, IN EGYPT OF COURSE IT WAS THE NIGHT OF A GREAT SACRIFICE.
• 21:19 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT IS ALSO A NIGHT OF A GREAT SACRIFICE.
• 21:22 THIS NIGHT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS CAUSE ON THIS NIGHT MEN ARE GOING TO KILL GOD!
• 21:30 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. AND WITH THAT BLOOD OF THAT LAMB
• 21:34 THE WORLD IS TRULY EMANCIPATED LIKE THE JEWS WERE TAKEN OUT IN THE EXODUS.
• 21:39 THIS REALLY IS A STORY OF SACRIFICE AND SALVATION AND THE STORY PROVES IT.
• 21:45 FATHER TAKES HIS CUE FROM THOSE QUESTIONS TO EXPLAIN THEM.
• 21:49 AND WHAT DID THEY REALLY MEAN?
• 21:50 HE WANTS TO KNOW WHY ON ALL OTHER NIGHTS WE EAT ANY KIND OF BREAD
• 21:55 BUT TONIGHT ONLY UNLEAVENED BREAD.
• 21:56 WHY THE BITTER HERBS ON THE TABLE?
• 21:59 THE RECLINING ON CUSHIONS ON THE CHAIRS SO WE CAN RELAX?
• 22:05 THE DIPPING?
• 22:05 THERE'S A BOWEL OF SALT WATER THAT WE'RE GOING TO DIP THINGS IN AND THERE'S CHAROSES.
• 22:11 I'M GOING TO COME TO THESE THINGS.
• 22:12 THERE'S DIPPING CEREMONIES AND HE ASKS ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS
• 22:15 AND FATHER IN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS TELLS THE STORY OF THE EXODUS.
• 22:19 AND WHEN HE COMES TO EACH OF THESE FOODS, THEY PERTAIN TO A PART OF THE STORY.
• 22:23 SO WE STOP THE STORY AND EAT THE FOOD AND GO ON TO THE NEXT THING.
• 22:27 HE BEGINS WHEN WE WERE SLAVES TO PHARAOH IN EGYPT.
• 22:30 I MEAN NO OTHER NATION CAN TELL A STORY THAT'S SO OLD,
• 22:34 THAT'S SO THRILLING AS THE EMANCIPATION OF THIS ENTIRE NATION.
• 22:41 HE STARTS WITH THE BITTERNESS OF THE SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
• 22:45 AND HERE WE HAVE HORSERADISH
• 22:47 THERE'S A LAZY SUSAN
• 22:49 WITH THE CEREMONIAL FOODS ON IT
• 22:51 AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF HORSERADISH ON THERE.
• 22:54 YOU BREAK UP A PIECE OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD,
• 22:56 DIP IT IN THE HORSERADISH AND EAT THAT.
• 22:59 AND, WELL, SOMETIMES THEY JUST SLICE A CHIP OFF A REAL HORSERADISH.
• 23:03 THAT WILL CLEAR YOUR SINUSES. (Audience laughing).
• 23:06 IT BRINGS TEARS TO THE EYES AND THAT'S THE IDEA, TO WEEP OVER THE SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
• 23:12 THEN HE COMES TO THE CONVERSATION WHERE PHARAOH SAID,
• 23:15 "YOU WILL MAKE YOUR OWN BRICK MORTAR FROM NOW ON", REMEMBER, TOLD MOSES.
• 23:19 AND SO THEY STILL MAKE IT, BUT THEY MAKE IT OF APPLES, NUTS AND CINNAMON.
• 23:24 IT'S DELICIOUS, THE CHAROSES.
• 23:25 I WAS THE CHAROSES MAKER IN MY FAMILY. THAT WAS MY JOB ON THE DAY OF PREPARATION.
• 23:31 AND THEY DIP A PIECE OF BREAD IN THAT.
• 23:34 THE DIPPING IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN CEREMONY, USUALLY, THERE IS FOR EXAMPLE,
• 23:40 GOING TO DIP IN SALT WATER, THERE'S A LAVER OF SALT WATER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE.
• 23:44 IT'S A LONG TABLE, IN JESUS TIME TWELVE MEN AT THE TABLE.
• 23:48 SO IT WAS EITHER THE DIPPING IN THE SALT WATER OR THE DIPPING IN THE CHAROSES
• 23:53 WHERE THEY ALL GET UP AND REACH OVER AND WE KNOW THIS FROM THE GOSPEL
• 23:57 BECAUSE YOU REMEMBER THE QUESTION, "WHICH OF US WILL BETRAY YOU LORD?"
• 24:02 AND HE SAID AT HIS END OF THE TABLE, "WATCH FOR THE ONE THAT DIPS AFTER ME."
• 24:06 EVIDENTLY, JUDAS WAS AT THE OTHER END, DIDN'T OVERHEAR THAT.
• 24:09 THEY ALL GET UP AND DIP IN THIS BOWL AND JUDAS' HAND WAS NEXT AFTER THE LORD.
• 24:15 SO WE KNOW THAT THEY DID THE DIPPING CEREMONY.
• 24:18 WE COME TO THE SHANK BONE OF A LAMB WHICH IS ON THE PLATE.
• 24:23 THIS OF COURSE PERTAINS TO THE SACRIFICE I EXPLAINED, THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
• 24:28 OR IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, WAS THE SAME THING.
• 24:32 THE SECOND CUP OF WINE COMES UP DURING THIS
• 24:37 AND ON THIS ONE WE ACTUALLY SPILL THE WINE MORE THAN DRINK IT.
• 24:42 WE SPILL DROPS WHEN FATHER CHANTS THE NAMES OF THE PLAGUES,
• 24:48 "Dahm", BLOOD,
• 24:49 "Tzfarde'a", FROGS,
• 24:51 "Kinim", VERMIN,
• 24:53 "Arov", NOXIOUS BEASTS,
• 24:54 AND THIS RED WINE IS FALLING IN A WHITE PLATE AND IT LOOKS LIKE BLOOD AND THAT IS THE IDEA.
• 25:01 SO, THE LAST ONE, "Makat B'charot", THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN,
• 25:07 IT'S A VERY SAD CEREMONY, THE SPILLING OF THIS CUP OF WINE.
• 25:12 THE PARSLEY IS DIPPED TWICE IN THE LAVER OF SALT WATER,
• 25:15 ONCE FOR ISRAEL YOUNG AND GREEN IN THE SPRINGTIME OF ITS NATIONHOOD,
• 25:20 AND ONCE FOR THE ARMY OF EGYPT THAT TRIED TO FOLLOW HIM AND DOWN THE HATCH.
• 25:27 (Audience laughing).
• 25:28 AND THE STORY GOES ON WITH FATHER TELLING IT,
• 25:32 SINGING, CHANTING IN HEBREW AND EVERYBODY FOLLOWING.
• 25:34 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD MAKE A POINT OF,
• 25:37 THAT HAGGADAH IS PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA, IT'S PUBLISHED IN CHINA, IT'S PUBLISHED THE WORLD AROUND.
• 25:44 AND WHEN AN IMMIGRANT COMES HERE HE CAN DO PASSOVER PERFECTLY.
• 25:47 HE HAS A HAGGADAH IN HEBREW, I HAVE A HAGGADAH IN HEBREW, WE SIT DOWN AT THIS TABLE.
• 25:51 IT'S ONE OF THE ONLY THINGS THAT IMMIGRANTS CAN DO PERFECTLY IN AMERICA OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY,
• 25:57 THIS AGE OLD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL.
• 26:01 WELL TUNE IN NEXT WEEK, WE'LL CONTINUE FROM EXACTLY THIS POINT,
• 26:04 FINISH THE SEDER PLATE AND THE STORY OF THE EXODUS,
• 26:08 THIS WONDERFUL 3500 YEAR FESTIVAL CALLED "PASSOVER".
• 26:29 IT'S BEEN SAID THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE NEW TESTAMENT CONCEALED
• 26:33 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE OLD TESTAMENT REVEALED.
• 26:35 GOODNESS THAT COMES TO THE FORE IN THE STUDY OF THE PASSOVER DOESN'T IT?
• 26:39 PASSOVER IS WONDERFUL.
• 26:40 REALLY THE STUDY OF HOW GOD DELIVERS US FROM SLAVERY AND FROM SIN.
• 26:46 IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY JEFF.
• 26:47 AND THAT DELIVERANCE IS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE TODAY ISN'T IT?
• 26:51 IT IS.
• 26:51 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:53 "SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALYIM"
• 26:55 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.