Why do you want me to?’ he asked, and a curious change came over his voice. It was sharp with suspicion and annoyance. ‘You are always badgering me about my ring; but you have never bothered me about the other things that I got on my journey.’ ‘Wel, ya – ha na. Pan dyb...
18He knew very well that the Jewish authorities had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous. 19While Pilate was sitting in the judgement hall, his wife sent him a message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream last night I suffered much on account ...
He is humble and rides on a donkey and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” 6So the disciples went and did what Jesus had told them to do: 7they brought the donkey and the colt, threw their cloaks over them, and Jesus got on. 8A large crowd of people spread their cloaks on the...
The Four Cups of Wine take on new importance this year, too. Wine was considered a royal drink in the past, and hence drinking wine meant that you were free. While there is no concrete reason why we drink four cup at a Seder (or even three or two), we still need ...
He took the cup of wine (W) Also the cup (CV) We should ask ourselves if there is a reason not to accept “cup” here as a literal cup. Is it possible to take a literal cup in one’s hands? Certainly it is. Is a part placed for the whole? Yes. By the context, we know ...
We are commanded at the Seder to drink four cups of wine to allude to the tikkun of the Aitz Hadaas which according to another opinion was the juice squeezed from its grapes. Just like after the eating from the AitzHadaas the Shechinah departed from Adam (Bamidbar Rabba 12,6), the ...
On Passover, an invisible man breaks into the house silently while we’re all eating because he wants to drink a small glass of wine That same week, a 10-foot-tall sentient rabbit breaks into the house, possibly by morphing through the wall, and puts a bunch of chocolate eggs that he...
48One of them ran up at once, took a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make him drink it. 49But the others said, “Wait, let us see if Elijah is coming to save him!” 50Jesus again gave a loud cry and breathed his last. 51Then...