{"id":1137,"date":"2011-04-17T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/4\/17\/Parashat-Pesach-What-does-the-pagan-festival-Easter-have-to-do-with-the-Saving-Power-of-His-Blood"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:23:49","slug":"parashat-pesach-what-does-the-pagan-festival-easter-have-to-do-with-the-saving-power-of-his-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-pesach-what-does-the-pagan-festival-easter-have-to-do-with-the-saving-power-of-his-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Pesach: What does the pagan festival Easter have to do with the Saving Power of His Blood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s reading in preparation for HaMo\u2019ed Pesach (Passover) we read from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shemot \/ Exodus 32:12-34:26<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 This section begins with a conversation between Moshe and HaShem, Moshe pleaded for mercy for the Children of Yisrael and then asks to see God\u2019s face.\u00a0 The Lord replies by commanding Moshe to prepare two stone tablets like the previous ones he destroyed and then to obey His mitzvot (commands).\u00a0 Within the list of commands, we find the command to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Pesach (Passover) holiday.\u00a0 While reading through the portion of scripture on the Pesach (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shemot \/ Exodus 34:18-22<\/em><\/span>) it is interesting to read <em>\u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">u\u2019peter khamor tifdeh veseh v\u2019im lo tifdev va\u2019arafto \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/em> meaning <em>\u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring of a donkey and if you do not redeem it then you shall break its neck.\u201d<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Have you ever wondered what is the meaning of this command for the requirement to redeem the first born of a donkey and if this is not done its neck is to be broken?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Chol%20HaMo%27ed%20-%20Pesach%20_2010-2011_.pdf\">Read More here.\u00a0 <\/a>and for additional reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-pesach-what-does-the-pagan-festival-easter-have-to-do-with-the-saving-power-of-his-blood\/whypassover-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Passover<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s reading in preparation for HaMo&rsquo;ed Pesach (Passover) we read from<br \/>\nShemot \/ Exodus 32:12-34:26.&nbsp; This section begins with a conversation between Moshe and HaShem, Moshe<br \/>\npleaded for mercy for the Childr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}