Origin of Passover

Prosic, Tamara

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“…39 For our purposes, it is important to note that the biblical Passover is a sacrificial meal that is eaten in the family setting-''a lamb to a family, a lamb to a household'' (Exod. 12:3).…”

Section: The Family Passover In Jewish Societies Of the Pastmentioning

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“…Although the prebiblical roots of Passover are unclear, it is portrayed in the Bible as the central holiday of the Jewish people, commemorating, by means of the ritual of the Passover sacrifice, the birth of the nation through the Exodus from Egypt. 39 For our purposes, it is important to note that the biblical Passover is a sacrificial meal that is eaten in the family setting-''a lamb to a family, a lamb to a household'' (Exod. 12:3).…”

Section: The Family Passover In Jewish Societies Of the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

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You Can’t Pick Your Family

Shoham

2014

Journal of Family History

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Familism is a model of a social organization that assigns the family an important role in individual and collective identity. This article proposes a historical analysis and interpretation of the Seder celebrations of Jewish Israelis, in order to explore what is unique about Israeli familism-that it imagines the entire nation as an extended family. This ritual continues to be widely practiced today by Jews of every sector-secular, traditional, and religious. As a result, it has a significant presence in Israeli popular culture. The focus is on two questions: (1) who celebrates? That is, what forum convenes around the table? (2) How is it celebrated? That is, what ritual is conducted during the festive gathering? The historical and ethnographic analysis shows that over the course of the twentieth century, the extended family became the preferred forum for celebration, and that the conformist reading of the Haggadah and the other parts of the ceremony continue on the whole to follow the Orthodox rules, even in secular families. This mode of celebration is analyzed here as an expression of the political image of the entire Jewish people as one large extended family and as a demonstration of the extensive use of Jewish familism in the construction of Jewish identity in Israel today.

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Section: The Family Passover In Jewish Societies Of the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Family Passover In Jewish Societies Of the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

You Can’t Pick Your Family

Shoham

2014

Journal of Family History

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“Exodus” in Diaspora and the Homeland: Narrative Technique and a Model for Salvation in Ezra-Nehemiah and Esther

Thambyrajah

2024

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Scholarship has been divided on whether there is any reference to the exodus in the books of Ezra-Nehemiah and Esther. In this article, it is argued that although both books do refer to the exodus, they do not necessarily refer to the book of Exodus. Rather than approaching this problem from the perspective of intertextuality, the article studies the use of exodus motifs as a narratological phenomenon. It compares the way that two texts, one from the diaspora and one from Yehud, use exodus motifs to support their own agendas. In each text, the exodus acts as a model for a type of salvation.

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Origin of Passover

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You Can’t Pick Your Family

You Can’t Pick Your Family

“Exodus” in Diaspora and the Homeland: Narrative Technique and a Model for Salvation in Ezra-Nehemiah and Esther

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