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| Learning the Lessons of Jewish History |
| 2021-03-28 |
| [American Thinker] Passover began last night. Jews have celebrated this holiday annually since the Biblical Exodus when Moses, with God’s help, liberated the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. For American Jews, last year was a Passover unlike any other and this year’s Passover is beginning to carry ominous overtones of past Passovers in times and places very threatening both to Jews and to all craving individual liberty. In 2020, for the first time ever in America, Jews were unable to gather for Passover — but they coped. They gathered with family and friends via Zoom, coming together to repeat the ancient rituals, passed down through generations, to remember the blessings of liberty God bestowed upon their people many years ago. One of those traditions is that Jews recline, or at least sit comfortably, at the Passover table. This simple act of relaxation reminds us of the difference between freedom and slavery. In everything we do at the Seder, we remind ourselves that the Jewish people cherish freedom and fight to protect it. The Seder also reminds us, though, that we have often lost our freedom in totalitarian nations. From slavery in Egypt, to the Babylon captivity, to the Spanish Inquisition, to Pogroms in Russia and Poland, to the systematic killing of six million Jews in the Holocaust, we have constant and terrible ancestral reminders that we can lose this precious liberty. |
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| #2 The Watering Down Of Tradition Is A Powerful Tool Of The Progressive Movement |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-03-28 13:53 |
| #1 We did a Zoom Seder last year, but it felt sterile. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-28 13:50 |