Jewish Passover, Jesus, and the Last Supper by Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall
Thanks for joining today’s study, examining the connections between the Jewish Passover, Jesus, and the Last Supper. We begin with my personal experience raised in a Jewish but non-religious home.
My parents celebrated their Jewish heritage with a Passover seder. Uncle Sam, my mother’s brother-in-law, was the most devout and always read from the Haggadah —the Passover seder narration of the Exodus Bible story explaining the symbolism of the seder meal.
Here are my childhood/teenage Passover seder memories:
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We used the “good china” and polished Grandma Kahn’s silverware. My mother Gloria and I wore new dresses to sit in the holiday’s-only dining room. My father interrupted Uncle Sam’s Haggadah reading to say, “enough already, let’s eat.” Uncle Sam hid a napkin with “matzos” — unleavened bread synonymous with Passover — and the finder won fifty cents. Gloria bribed me to play the piano. I dreaded a week of school lunches since my usual baloney between slices of Arnold bread was temporarily relocated between two pieces of matzos that my mother called “muttzy bread,” and I called “cardboard.”
Here is the total sum of what I knew about why we gathered:
Jewish baby boys were saved from death because parents put lamb’s blood on their doors for God to pass over on His way to killing Egyptian baby boys sleeping behind bloodless doors. Then, led by Moses, the Jewish people quickly left Egypt with no time for their bread to rise (that explained my wretched baloney on “muttzy.”) The Red Sea miraculously opened, and our ancestors escaped slavery in Egypt. Our happy annual celebration ended when everyone toasted “next year in Jerusalem” — with Passover wine so horrid tasting, no wonder my parents didn’t drink.
Here is what I learned after accepting Jesus as the Jewish Messiah and started regularly attending church and Bible study:
