Faithful celebrating Easter, Passover find connection in stories and traditions

Florida Man: Thoughts on Passover

Here’s another confession of sorts. When Florida Man writes about religion in any form, I feel half a hypocrite, maybe three quarters because I’m in deep water and I don’t know how to swim.     Generalities I can handle, specifics, no way. But I’m going ahead anyway because I want to tell you about Saturday morning’s service at Kol Tikvah.      I guess this is not so much about religion but my feelings about Jewish tradition which I know only en…

Faithful celebrating Easter, Passover find connection in stories and traditions

With both Easter Sunday and the end of Passover falling on the same day this year, April 20, Jewish and Christian faithful around Southern California and the world are finding creative ways to observe — and celebrate — the holy holidays. Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus after his suffering and death on the cross, is also symbolically connected to the Jewish Passover, which commemorates the Israelites’ liberation from centuries of sl…

Easter, the main celebration of the Christian calendar, represents the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who according to Christian belief came to Earth to save humanity from its sins. Although, in terms of reason, they are totally different, Christian Easter was influenced by Passover (“passage” in Hebrew), a traditional Jewish celebration to celebrate the liberation of the Hebrew people after 400 years of slavery in Egypt. This annual event took p…

Jews and Christians are celebrating important festivals this year again at the same time. What connects the respective festivals?

In the era of Ra'wa Darawin of the Sabbath and the seventh feast of Passover, the Rebbe of Parmishlan made his pure table a percentage of holy tiles, with his followers turning it around as a wall | At the height of the Tish, the Rebbe prevails the chant 'Hashem Siddur Pascha' as the devotees eagerly listen to the Rebbe's poetry and chant after it as is customary | The lofty bash was attended by the influential genius Rabbi Lior Glazer who lives…

“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain,” wrote St. Paul in his Letter to the Corinthians.