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Another Perspective
Truth and Falsehood at Passover
The view from Miami Beach.
Media bias is one subject and Passover is another, you might think. Leftist domination of the academy is one subject and Passover is another, you might also think. But you would be wrong, I fear.
The structure of Passover is designed not merely to provide a fun family get-together, nor is it limited to inspiring a spiritual holiday in celebration of freedom. It does all of those things secondarily, but its primary task is to provide the evidentiary framework for the entire Jewish project. The Bible repeats numerous times that the first night of Passover must be used by parents to teach their children the facts of the historical and miraculous redemption by God of the Jewish People from slavery and oppression in Egypt.
The great Jewish writer, Nachmanides, expounds on this by declaring that the founding principle of Jewish tradition is that “a man does not pass a legacy of falsehood to his children.” The very fact that in each year in each generation, again and again and again over three thousand years, every Jewish father has told every Jewish child the same story with the same details forms the basis of our certain knowledge of those events.
Consequently, when the doubters spin their theories of evolving mythology in an effort to undermine the truth of the Bible, traditional Jews laugh. They do not rely on belief or on faith but on a definite knowledge based on the incontrovertible testimony of a million fathers over thousands of years. All the egghead philosophizing melts away before the veracity of multiple eyewitness reports, preserved in a flawless filing system operating undisturbed over the millennia.
Thus the Jew has a heavy stake in the accurate reporting of news and the conscientious transmission of history. He cannot afford to be influenced by a culture that will teach fathers to lie to their children. Once that begins to happen, the foundation is gone.
On the one hand, Passover 2012 is a very happy time, especially here in Miami, where we host Jews from all over the world who come to experience the thrill of freedom in a tropical paradise with only one flaw: not enough of it has been paved to make parking lots.
The wealthier class of Jew is here leaving his money at all the local businesses. Those who stay at hotels have their food catered but many rent villas here — ten days for a home with a pool costs $2500; younger locals cash in by pocketing the cash and spending Passover at their parents — and cook for themselves, buying thousands in provisions. It is an expensive affair, because all that cheap bread cannot be eaten for eight days, and the specially baked matzohs can cost from five to thirty dollars a pound.
These partiers are not selfish and the less fortunate are richly subsidized. In my North Miami Beach neighborhood alone, anonymous donors gave out hundreds of thousands of dollars in gift certificates usable in the stores that sell Passover products. A truck pulled up on a street corner here and unloaded enormous quantities of fresh vegetables available free to local families struggling to get through the holiday.
Yet all this passing off falsehood in place of truth gives me pause. Nobel laureate Günter Grass announces in a poem that Israel is a greater obstacle to world peace than Iran. Authoress Naomi Ragen lifts entire sections of Sarah Shapiro’s book virtually word-for-word; when convicted of plagiarism in Israel, she gets American reporters to say that U.S.-born Naomi Ragen is being persecuted by a petty Israeli huckster — concealing the fact that Mrs. Shapiro is not only U.S.-born herself, she is the daughter of famed American author Norman Cousins. The spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department will not state definitively in her press conference that Jerusalem belongs to Israel, saying that is the subject of ongoing negotiations. Truth apparently is a negotiable commodity.
Freedom is great and it should be treasured, never more than on Passover. But if we foolishly allow truth to be distorted — even if that is done in the name of social justice or some such chimera — we will find ourselves once again wearing the yoke of slavery, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Jack in Wi.| 4.6.12 @ 7:16AM
Happy Passover: Shalom.
Alan Brooks| 4.6.12 @ 6:26PM
Allah Buyuk!
AviceMarie Griffin| 4.6.12 @ 7:25AM
True, and thank you very much.
Alan Brooks| 4.6.12 @ 6:30PM
"But if we foolishly allow truth to be distorted -- even if that is done in the name of social justice or some such chimera "
Now you get to the point. Long as you all keep in mind: si omnium smarmy videbunt per te.
KyMouse| 4.6.12 @ 8:33AM
Thank you for the insightful article, Mr. Homnick.
As I have pointed out before, and on another thread today, this time of year is an especially good time to remember the following:
Jesus spoke about His impending sacrificial death to Nicodemus, a Jewish leader, in John 3:14-18. He was referring to Numbers 21:4-9 in the Tenach (the Old Testament) —
“…And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God….”
God loved His Hebrew people so much that He rescued them from slavery in Egypt; but when they sinned against Him, He required them to look toward the bronze serpent on the pole if they wanted to be saved from the poison of the fiery serpents He sent to punish them. They were not automatically saved because they were His Chosen People.
Jesus is saying in these verses that the bronze serpent was a symbol of the death He was about to suffer on the cross in order to pay for the sins (to save from the fatal poison of sin) of everyone who looks to Him in faith (obedient trust).
The need for faith in Jesus in order to be saved applies to all of us. My beloved grandmother and my dear father are forever separated from God by their sins unless they put their faith (obedient trust) in Jesus before they died.
“Jews for Jesus” have included composer Felix Mendelssohn (who wrote the music to “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing”), British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (who wrote that “Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity”), planetary astronomer Sir William Herschel; Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice; mystery novelist Andrew Klavan; and actor David Suchet (“Poirot”).
la comedia e finito| 4.6.12 @ 8:59AM
Oy Vey ist Mir...
...It's "friends" like that.. who tell us how much they "LOVE" us..BUT unless we admit that only Jesus is the "true saviour", we are damned---that I can really do without..
BTW...it WAS Mendelssohn's FATHER who force-converted his family... out of a sense of the anti-semitism of late 18th C. middle-Europe.. Felix had no choice, in the matter....
Larry Engel, Snark| 4.6.12 @ 10:00AM
There is nothing more repugnant to a Jew than a Christian person that just loves the Jews so much, and only wishes they would convert, so that they may go to Heaven too. Happy Easter
la comedia e finito| 4.6.12 @ 10:20AM
...it actually isn't "Love" towards , or for Jews , in the slightest, that is expressed in the desire for them to "convert"
It is an underlying insidious hatred, in fact.. the same hatred that has shown itself in many guises, since the birth and rise of Christianity
bob alou| 4.6.12 @ 1:57PM
When I was in Seminary I remember one class where we were examining the prophecies foretelling the coming of the Messiah. As a first year know it all I remember suggesting that in light of the somewhat nebulous language that is sometimes taken to describe a coming event that I could understand how an unbeliever might have a problem with accepting them as portents. My professor, a fine man and extraordinary old testament scholar said, "I understand your point, but understand this, those who were expecting the Messiah were the ones interpreting this prophecies to point to the coming of the one. The jews believed they pointed to the Messiah, and it is on that basis that the coming of Jesus was predicted, and the fulfillment of the same." There is nothing hateful or anti-semitic about Jesus, no matter how His teachings and ministry may have been perverted or misused. The unfortunate reality is that all of us struggle against hypocrisy and our flawed human nature. Jesus never did, which is why I would suggest that you study Him, as well as what your own scriptures said He would be and do. If you disagree that's your right, but to ignore or vilify Him is spiritually and historically wrong. Peace to you and may you find truth.
WayneFarner| 4.6.12 @ 10:08PM
The Biblical definition of love is "wanting God's best for another." Since Jesus was/is God (in human flesh), rejecting Him is telling God, "No, I don't need you."
Brother in Christ| 4.7.12 @ 2:31PM
Well said.
Brother in Christ| 4.7.12 @ 2:32PM
Larry Engel,
Well done.
Occam's Tool| 4.8.12 @ 9:25PM
KyMouse is a sincere and decent person. I have theological differences with her, but Happy Easter, dear lady. And thank you for your prayers and kind wishes for me and my family. If there had been more of your type in Kentucky, as opposed to members of the Presbyterianazi Church (USA), I might still be there practicing Medicine.
I'm a graduate of TCU, and a believing Jew. And that, folks, is how you appropriately and gently deal with Evangelical Christians who say they love you and wish you would convert. Accept their love, be kind, and politely acknowledge differences.
We have real enemies who are highly problematic, and people like KyMouse have our back on them. Do not unnecessarily piss off your friends. We Jews need to learn some discernment and discretion in this. If you've read her other writings, KyMouse is one of the nicest, most polite, and most decent human beings posting on this site---far nicer than I am, for example.
apnep| 4.6.12 @ 1:24PM
Judaism is a beautiful thing because it is the root of Christianity. Remember, both Jews and Christians are waiting for the Messiah, so is there really any difference? Have a wonderful Passover.
Thomas Hulting| 4.6.12 @ 11:47AM
Mr. Homnick does tell the truth, as far as he goes; he stops well short of any discussion of the Paschal Lamb, it's (His) significance, both as a precedent for the Exodus, and as the typology that foretells a future Scriptural event, like so much prophecy throughout all of Scripture.
Still, his very valid observations are a sad reminder of what many of us have allowed to be taken from us, and what we have allowed as a cheap substitute.
Joe D.| 4.6.12 @ 11:53AM
Jay, your article was nice. However, you should exam the truth of Jesus Christ (birth and reseraction) including the change in the deciples before and after his death. And don't forget the over 50o witnesses to his reseraction.
God Bless you!
Brother in Christ| 4.7.12 @ 2:34PM
That's Resurrection, brother.
Vern Crisler| 4.6.12 @ 12:18PM
Gunter was a former Waffen-SS member, so it's no surprise he would criticize Israel's right to protect itself against nuclear annihilation.
Vox Populi| 4.6.12 @ 2:18PM
quite right
Occam's Tool| 4.8.12 @ 9:27PM
I never liked "The Tin Drum," movie or book. Grass is like The fellow who wrote "Storm of Steel."
However, the amusing part is that Germans are dying out in Germany by their own hand, and Islam is becoming a greater and greater force there. G-d has his little jests.
Al Adab| 4.6.12 @ 12:44PM
It is only through an understanding of Passover - the sacrifice and the resurrection of Israel from slavery - that we begin to comprehend the full meaning of Christ. Far be it from me to condemn Jews who practice and keep the remembrance alive. It is from that example that those of us who chose Christianity gain knowledge and meaning of the relationship of God to man and the sacrificial nature of Messiah.
It is good that from time to time, as this year, Passover and Easter coincide as they should. A reading of the text demonstrates that the Thursday Seder was followed by Fridays crucifixtion and Sundays event. It is Judaism fullfilled we celebrate.
Brother in Christ| 4.7.12 @ 2:35PM
"It is Judaism fullfilled we celebrate."
Amen.
And that, every day, for Christians.
Frank Natoli| 4.6.12 @ 3:58PM
Jay: to all those who say with a straight face that Israel is a bigger threat to peace than Iran, ask them this question: "tonight, while you sleep, I will clap my hands, and when you next wake, you will find yourself in the West Bank, or Gaza, or Damascus, or Teheran, or Baghdad, or Riyadh, or Beirut, or Cairo, or Tel Aviv and you may never leave. But because I am reasonable, I will allow you to choose where I will send you. What is your choice?"
Keep score and let me know.
Vasu Murti | 4.6.12 @ 7:15PM
"...But if we foolishly allow truth to be distorted -- even if that is done in the name of social justice or some such chimera... "
Or, along the lines of social justice, interfaith harmony. It's popular this time of year for Jews and Christians alike to proclaim that Jesus was Jewish, Jesus was a rabbi, and that his Last Supper with his disciples was a Passover meal.
But was the Last Supper a Passover?
Passover remains one of the most important holy days in the Jewish calendar. Passover is an annual spring festival, serving as a memorial of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under Moses. In first century Judea,
Passover was centered around two events. On the 14th day of the month of Nisan, innocent lambs were ritually slain in the Temple at Jerusalem. This was the day of Preparation. On the 15th day of Nisan, the Passover feast would take place. The Passover meal would be eaten by congregations and by families, in selected places throughout Jerusalem.
The Passover meal consisted of slaughtered lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs and wine, which was sipped periodically. The prayers at the table invoked the remembrance of God’s deliverance of His people from past bondage; asking for His continued blessings upon the children of Israel.
The first three gospels imply Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal (Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-14; Luke 22:7-15), and that his crucifixion occurred the very same day.
If Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples was a Passover meal, then Jesus may have eaten the Passover lamb. This would mean it was unlikely that he was a vegetarian.
The account of the Last Supper given in the Fourth Gospel clearly indicates it was not a Passover meal, but a meal shared on the day of Preparation:
"Before the Passover feast Jesus, aware that his hour had come that he should depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And supper being ended..." (John 13:1-2)
This text explicitly states that Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples took place before the feast known as Passover.
John 18:28 states that the Jewish religious authorities would not enter the Roman Praetorium where Jesus was being tried, "so that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover."
Pontius Pilate told the Jews, "This is your king," as he ordered Jesus crucified. This occurred on the twelfth hour of the day of Preparation. (John 19:14) After crucifixion, the Jews asked Pontius Pilate that Jesus’ body be taken from the cross and given a decent burial before the Sabbath which was Passover. (John 19:31)
Friday was the day of Preparation for the Sabbath, which began at sundown. According to the Jewish calendar, a new day begins at six p.m., while the week concludes with the Sabbath, or Saturday.
The first three gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) state that Jesus celebrated Passover with his disciples and suffered arrest, trial and crucifixion on Friday evening, the 15th of Nisan.
Only the Fourth Gospel explicitly places the Last Supper on Thursday evening, the 14th of Nisan. Jesus’ final meal with his disciples, his arrest, trial and crucifixion all take place on Nisan 14 in this gospel.
To some extent, the accounts given by Matthew, Mark and Luke conform to the Fourth Gospel. In Matthew 26:5, the authorities decided not to apprehend Jesus during the Passover feast, "lest there be an uproar amongst the people."
All four gospel writers record Jesus’ burial on the day of Preparation. (Matthew 27:57-62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 20:42)
Passover was a holy day, regarded as a Sabbath by the Jews. Its holiness was protected by traditional Sabbath restrictions. The gospels describe incidents connected with Jesus’ crucifixion which would not have occurred on a holy day.
To begin with, it is unlikely crowds would carry weapons once Passover had begun. (Matthew 26:47,55; Mark 14:43,48-49; Luke 22:52; John 18:3) There would have been no Jewish involvement in the Roman legal proceedings against Jesus. (Matthew 27:12; Mark 15:3; Luke 23:5) Nor would the trial and crucifixion of Jesus have occurred. (Matthew 27:27-50; Mark 15:16-37; Luke 23:26-46; John 19:17-30)
Simon the Cyrenian would not have journeyed from the country (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26) Nor would Joseph of Arimathea have been able to purchase a linen shroud and see to the burial of Jesus’ body.
The fact that Jesus was quickly taken down from the cross and buried in his tomb is consistent with the Jews’ desire that he not be left on the cross once the feast had begun. (Matthew 27:57-60; Mark 15:43-47; Luke 23:50-57; John 19:38-57)
The accounts of the Last Supper all center on the meal itself. As the meal proceeded, Jesus took the bread and gave thanks before God. Because his position in relation to God was like that of a high priest (Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:5-10, 7:17, 8:1), Jesus more than likely presented the bread before God as an offering. He then broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it, eat. This is my body...broken for your sakes; given up on your behalf. Do this in remembrance of me."
Jesus also took the cup, gave thanks before God, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "All of you drink of it; for this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
"Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. I tell you, from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine at all until that day when I shall drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom."
They sang hymns, and went out to the Mount of Olives.
(Matthew 26:26-30; Mark 14:22-26; Luke 22:17-20; I Corinthians 12:23-26)
Passover is traditionally a patriarchal family rite in which the father of a family presides. This meal does not resemble a traditional Passover Seder.
During the meal, Jesus identified his body and blood (soul, or life-force in the Jewish tradition) with food and drink offered to God through word and prayer. There is no mention of the Passover lamb; the foods described are vegetarian.
Paul, who called himself an apostle to the gentiles, provides the earliest written account of the Last Supper in I Corinthians 11:20-32. He writes of the "Lord’s Supper," but does not refer to a Passover meal. However, in I Corinthians 5:7, he proclaims: "Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us."
Early Christians observed the day of Jesus’ crucifixion on Nisan 14th. Claudius Appollinaris, Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus attest to this.
Jesus Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world," (John 1:29) died at the same time as countless other innocent lambs of God.
A tradition soon arose, however, that Jesus was crucified on Friday. The church father Irenaeus (120-200 AD) wrote that Jesus died in obedience to God’s will on the same day (Friday) Adam ate the forbidden fruit.
For centuries, one of the most bitter disputes in the Christian Church was over the date of the crucifixion. Next to the Trinitarian dispute, this was the most serious issue facing the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325.
The Eastern Church had celebrated the resurrection on Nisan 16, in April, which was also the Jewish Passover. The early Christian father Lactanius wrote that Jesus was crucified on March 23, with his resurrection on the 25th.
Curiously, these are the dates on which the passion, death, and resurrection of Attis, a pagan savior, had been celebrated for nearly two thousand years. The rites performed in honor of Attis closely resembled the Christians’ Easter liturgy.
Jesus was arrested, tried and crucified on Thursday, Nisan 14. He died at the same time the Passover lambs were being slain in the Temple at Jerusalem.
Jesus promised his disciples he would be resurrected on the third day (Sunday) from his execution.
(Matthew 16:21; Mark 10:34; Luke 18:33)
A trial and execution on Thursday, the day of Preparation for Passover, is therefore, more consistent with Scripture.
The Reverend Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford, writes in A New Commentary on Holy Scripture:
"We will assume John is right when he corrects Mark as to the nature of the Last Supper. It was not the Paschal meal proper, but a supper observed as a farewell supper with his disciples. Nor do the accounts of the supper suggest the ceremonial of the Passover meal."
In his commentary on Luke in the Cambridge Bible for Schools, Dean Farrar suggests the Last Supper "was not the actual Jewish Paschal meal, but one which was intended to supersede it by a Passover of far more divine significance."
IzeHavitt| 4.7.12 @ 12:57AM
Very well said. But the only difference I would have is that He died on Wednesday around 3pm, and then was hurriedly buried , sometime before 6pm. He had predicted He'd be in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. So that means He resurrected some time after 6pm on Saturday night, right after the weekly Sabbath had concluded. Otherwise, you can't get 3 days and 3 nights from Thursday evening to Sunday morning. The ongoing confusion lies with the lack of understanding of Jewish time, and the difference between a "High Day", or High Sabbath, and the regular weekly Sabbath.
Vern Crisler | 4.7.12 @ 6:23PM
Take into account that the term "day" had different starting and ending points depending on context. A day that goes from (say) six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock the next evening could be considered one day. However, another person may be counting the day beginning in the morning, from (say) six o'clock a.m. to twelve o'clock p.m., and that would be one day for him.
The counting of days would be different depending on where one started or ended. New Testament scholars have understood this as an explanation for temporal discrepancies in the Bible.
Bernard Feder| 4.6.12 @ 7:51PM
After describing how richer Jews in your area help subsidize those who need help, your next sentence is "Yet all this passing off falsehood in place of truth. . ." It isn't clear to me (and I have a Ph.D.) what falsehood you are referring to." Could you help me out?
George | 4.6.12 @ 9:21PM
Really, we do not need more parking lots in Miami! What we really need are more people that know how to drive.
I hope you were being facetious.
Abu Nudnik| 4.7.12 @ 2:35PM
Fact and truth are different things. Myth and truth can be the same thing. Scientistic (yes, I've coined the phrase for those whose mythology is a scientific world view they do not actually comprehend) Humanists seek to replace truth with fact, the pious the opposite. But they are quite different things and we cannot survive without both.
The historical dependability of Biblical narratives is much better than the scientistic claim but not entirely what the pious claim. There is no need to confuse fact and truth, much less to disrespect myth. Myth is poorly understood by both sides: it is the story, the ideal of a people. It is impossible for a myth not to be true.
Everyone thinks black and white today. It's time to think in color.
Brother in Christ| 4.7.12 @ 2:40PM
I sometimes dream in color, but Truth is always ib black and white.
"Jesus said to him, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me." Jn. 14:6.
AhiaGuy| 4.8.12 @ 11:44AM
Um...did this article get cut up by the editor? Seems to me there's a few points missing, like an ending or a resolution to all the random fragemts of comment.
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.8.12 @ 11:51AM
Gopher in Christ,
one question then, in God's promise never to flood the earth again...why did He make a rainbow in glorious livng color?
I particularly like the red tones.
Occam's Tool| 4.8.12 @ 9:30PM
Ken---the happiest of Easters, my friend. G-d Bless You and your fantastically Brilliant and wonderful wife.
Brother in Christ| 4.9.12 @ 12:57PM
Mole Ken,
Maybe you should go ask Jesse Jackson. After all, doesn't he head the Rainbow Coalition? And aren't you the supposed Christian who claims that God made Homosexuals that way, thus calling God a liar?
What a perversion you are.
And as to the Truth being black and white with no variations, since you don't believe the Bible to be inerrant, perfectly written by God's Hholy Spirit, you're nothing but a Reprobate.
"Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many." Mt. 7:13.
Brother in Christ| 4.9.12 @ 12:59PM
There are tho call themselves Christians in sheep's clothing.
Ken is an example of that.
Brother in Christ| 4.9.12 @ 1:03PM
There are those who call themselves Christian but are nothing but wolves in sheep's clothing.
Who call good evil and evil good.
"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? Lk. 6:46.