{"id":60395,"date":"2016-01-17T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T03:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=60395"},"modified":"2016-01-18T04:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:19:55","slug":"bonus-post-participating-in-the-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/bonus-post-participating-in-the-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Post: Participating in the Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that my last two posts (#1<\/a> | #2<\/a>) have related to the Exodus, my friend Sean sent me a link to an article <\/a>by Dave Armstrong about the relationship between the original Passover and the Seder meal celebrated by modern-day Children of Israel.<\/p>\n

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I had heard before from theologians that Jewish tradition spoke about how, when present-day Jews celebrate Passover, there is something of a mystical participation with the original Exodus under Moses.\u00a0This\u00a0understanding of participation in a past event has an application in the realm of Catholic apologetics. I have often spoken to Protestants who insist that when we speak of the Lord’s Supper as being a “memorial” (“anamnesis”<\/span> in Greek), it simply means that we remember<\/strong> what Jesus did and nothing more<\/strong>. A look at Jewish tradition present some problems with this understanding.<\/p>\n

For the rest of this post, I would just like to offer a few quotations from Dave’s article, but I thoroughly recommend that you read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a book<\/a><\/span> specifically about the Passover celebration, Martin Sicker writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Haggadah then continues with a statement that is also found in the Mishnah that calls upon each participant in the Seder to share vicariously in the experience of the Exodus.<\/span><\/p>\n

In every generation one is obliged to view oneself as though he [personally] had gone out from Egypt. As it is said: And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying:\u00a0It is because of that which the Lord did for me when I came forth out of Egypt\u00a0(Ex. 13:8)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Haggadah then amplifies this teaching, providing an appropriate biblical prooftext in support of its elaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holy One, blessed is He, did not redeem only our ancestors, but also redeemed us along with them. As it is said:\u00a0And He brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give<\/span> us the land which He swore unto our fathers.\u00a0(Deut. 6:23<\/span><\/span>).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . The Mishnah calls upon each participant in the Seder to make an intellectual leap across the millennia and thereby to share directly in the experience of their ancestors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another Jewish source<\/a>\u00a0concurs:<\/span><\/p>\n

By participating in the Seder, we are vicariously reliving the Exodus from Egypt. Around our festival table, the past and present merge and the future is promising.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given that my last two posts (#1 | #2) have related to the Exodus, my friend Sean sent me a link to an article by Dave Armstrong about the relationship between the original Passover and the Seder meal celebrated by modern-day Children of Israel. I had heard before from theologians that Jewish tradition spoke about how, when present-day Jews celebrate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3521,756,594,1184,3520],"class_list":["post-60395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-anamnesis","tag-egypt","tag-exodus","tag-passover","tag-seder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60398,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60395\/revisions\/60398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}