This is a custom that is part of the Passover story. The story talks about how Hebrew slaves fled from Egypt so fast that their bread did not have enough time to rise. Usually matzah is prepared without yeast and is not even allowed to rise. Therefore, eating matzah in remembrance of ...
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Paul also quotes a few of Jesus’ sayings: the prohibition of divorce and remarriage (1 Corinthians 7:10–11), the words over the bread and cup at Jesus’ Last Supper (1 Corinthians 11:23–25), and a prediction of the imminent arrival of the Savior from heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:15...
A commonly recited prayer entitled “Unetaneh Tokef,” which isattributedto Rabbi Amnon of Mainz in Europe in the 11th or 12th centuryce—but possibly centuries older—relates, “On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed; how many shall pass away and how many shall...
Thekiddushin(betrothal ceremony), or the first part of the Jewish wedding ceremony, takes place under the chuppah. It begins with greetings, a blessing over the wine, and a sip taken by the couple. Next come the rings: the groom recites an ancient Aramaic phrase as he places the wedding...
The most iconic is, of course, matzah. These are basically bread that never rose, giving it a cracker-like consistency. They must be made of one of the five grains consideredhametzon Passover – commonly understood to be wheat, barley, oat, rye, and spelt – and not from any other gra...
51a). It is dangerous, on account of the demons, to drink two cups of wine, or any even number (ib. 51b). The benediction pronounced over bread is also mentioned in the New Testament (Matt. xv. 36; John vi. 11; Acts xxvii. 35) and by Philo (ed. Mangey, ii. 481). The Torah...
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT[Mitzvot erev Pesach: eating; reclining; 4 cups of wine] CHAPTER FORTY-NINE[4 cups of wine cont.] CHAPTER FIFTY[Washing hands; Kiddush, dipping twice, bitter herbs, breaking matzah] CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE[Matzah/Bread of Affliction; redemption is separation and simplicity] ...
the Quakers, an extremist Puritan sect who did not believe in ministers and for whom a Society of Friends meeting together was good enough to bring down the Holy Spirit Calvinists, who early on had challenged the Catholic belief that the bread and wine became the body and blood of Jesus in...
Then, I will present Jewish prayer texts for female victims of sexual assault, classifying the findings into three categories: (1) changing God [dis]positionality; (2) purifying the painful body; and (3) mentioning biblical female characters and reframing the ethno-national mythos in the texts....