Exodus 12:14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

Exodus 12:1-2 (NKJV) Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

·         Seder means “Order”

Exodus 13:7 “Throughout the seven days [of Passover] no leavened bread shall be found with you, and no leaven shall be found in all your territory.” 

Exodus 12:3-6 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without[a] blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

·         The word Haggadah means “telling”

·         Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who sanctified us with your commandment and commanded us to kindle the festival lights. 

·         Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who gave us life and sustained us and enabled us to reach this season of Joy. 

Isaiah 53:5-6 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

·         Why is this night different from all other nights?

·         On all other nights, we eat either leavened bread or matzoh, but on this night we only eat matzoh.

·         On all other nights, we eat vegetables and herbs of all kinds. 

·         Why on this night do we eat bitter herbs?

·         On all other nights, we never think of dipping even once. 

·         Why on this night do we dip twice?

·         On all other nights, everyone sits up straight at the table. 

·         Why on this night do we all recline?

·         1st cup – Cup of Sanctification

·         Next comes the 2nd cup – Cup of Judgement: We don’t drink this cup!

·         The third cup is the most important – the Cup of Redemption.

1Corinthians 5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

·         Let’s say this Together: “Next Year in Jerusalem!”

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