I know there are many different thoughts about when is the "correct" night to celebrate Passover (for those who aren't Jewish), but we chose to celebrate the night before Good Friday. I didn't take very many pictures. It just didn't seem appropriate in the middle of such a solemn evening. Plus, I was too busy trying to keep up with the reading. :) BUT....I know Passover is a time of celebration - not meant to be somber and stern. We're learning! We hope next year we can make it much more fun and celebratory!
We used this book as a resource....
....and also used information we found at this website.
Here are a few pictures from our evening.
Our table....
The jackets on the backs of our chairs actually have significance. They are representative of Exodus 12:11, when God told the Israelites, "This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover." The Israelites were to be ready to leave Egypt with a moment's notice, eating the Passover meal with their "sandals on their feet"....hence, the jackets on the backs of our chairs represent our readiness and willingness to follow the Lord wherever He leads, whenever He says GO!
The Seder plate...
Kloe and Jacob reading their parts from the Haggadah.
The one thing I could not figure out where to get was the lamb's shank bone for the Seder plate. It was really stressing me out when, as I was looking at the horseradish root (also for the Seder plate), I saw this.
Ok, obviously it's not really a shank bone, but it looks a lot like one! It's actually a piece of horseradish root. If anyone reading this is Jewish or Messianic Jewish, please, please forgive our ignorance and "fudging" of some things. It is absolutely not our intention to be disrespectful in any way. It is our desire to learn, and to honor God by learning the significance and purposes behind the feasts He instituted.
It was a very long evening, and the kids got really tired before it was over, but I think they really learned a lot and have a better understanding of the whole Exodus story....which is what Passover is all about! "And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.'" Exodus 12:26-27
This was such a neat time for our family. A time of learning more about our God and His precision in writing Jesus into every single moment of history. If you have a few minutes, read about the matzoh, how three pieces are stacked together, how the middle one is broken and wrapped in linen, then hidden. I LOVE how Jesus was celebrating this very feast when He took the bread and broke it and said, "This is My body, broken for you." His body. Which was broken. And then wrapped in linen and "hidden" in a tomb.
Oh man, I love it! I love the symbolism. I love how Jesus fulfills every feast of the Lord. I love that we are learning. I'm so glad we did it. I'm hoping this will become an annual tradition at our house.
Do any of your families celebrate Passover? I would love to hear about it!
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