#Pardes pesach movie#

On seder night, you stay put, your home unit fixed and stoic. But given that weвЂ™re in this situation, perhaps some extra meaning can be found in connecting back with that first ever seder, held in isolation and trepidation at home. For those on their own, single parents, people unable to make a seder for themself, people living with those they wouldnвЂ™t necessarily choose as seder buddies and others вЂ“ it is going to be a particularly tough Pesach. This piece is not designed to sugar coat Seder 2020. This is prohibited, as the Paschal lamb must be eaten in a single location by one group. The reason for this prohibition is that people might remove the Paschal lamb to another location after they had begun to eat it elsewhere. According to this interpretation, afikoman is derived from the phrase afiku mani, take out the vessels. The Rashbam explains: One who joined one group for the Paschal lamb may not leave and take food with him. The Gemara asks: What is the meaning of afikoman ? Rav said: It means that a member of a group that ate the Paschal lamb together should not leave that group to join another group. But Rav in the Talmud has a different interpretation: In Pesachim 119b, the Gemara asks: What is the afikomen? The afikomen, as we now know is that piece of broken matza which gets hidden and found and which is eaten at the end of the meal. A parallel can be found with Sukkot, where the rabbis considered whether each family unit should in fact not leave their own sukkah for the whole festival, with R Eliezer saying вЂњAnyone who departs from one sukka to another sukka has negated the mitzva of the first.вЂќ(2)ДЄnd there are remnants of this line of thinking in the Talmud. There was something about turning inwards, and being just in the home which shelters, and just with the other people who live there, which was deemed appropriate for the first ever Seder.Д«ut more to the point, in one of so many roads not taken in Jewish thought, Seder was very almost always to be held in вЂњisolation,вЂќ with our immediate family, not so much as stepping outside the door. And for small or solo households, then as today, we were called upon to share resources. Then as today, the household unit became everything. IвЂ™m thankful that wasnвЂ™t the decision (I mean, we have some unusual laws, but lambвЂ™s blood is something IвЂ™m thankful to read about rather than handle). When the next verse says вЂњYou shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants,вЂќ the Rabbis actually ask whether we are to paint our doorposts with blood as part of the way we practice Pesach forever, Pesach Dorot. There was something about turning inwards, and being just in the home which shelters, and just with the other people who live there, which was deemed appropriate for the first ever Seder. But if the household is too small for a lamb, let them share one with a neighbor who dwells nearby, in proportion to the number of people.вЂќ Take a lamb to a family, a lamb to a household. Two weeks earlier, Moshe had said (and see how the Hebrew emphasises the word for вЂњhomeвЂќ more than the English): The idea of a force sent by God which kills one from each Egyptian family is deeply unsettling and theologically challenging. For those feeling fragile in our own plague-ridden times, please consider not following this link.

#Pardes pesach movie#

To see a visualisation of what the last night in Egypt might have been like, the Prince of Egypt movie has a powerful and shocking portrayal. Staying inside protects from the dangers outside. The people were not to leave their homes so as not to вЂњgive an opportunity to the Destroyer,вЂќ writes the Ibn Ezra on this verse.

вЂњTake a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorpostsвЂ¦ For when the LORD goes through to smite the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and the LORD will pass over the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home.вЂќ(Shemot 12:22-23).