Way back when (about 5 years ago prior to quarantine) we tried to host a real Passover at our local community club house with about 8-10 families. As it ended up we were not able to do all of the rules and traditions that traditional Jewish families are accustomed to because I did not grow up Jewish and have a model of how this celebration works. We didn’t even have a long table big enough for everyone to serve each course. We only had two people present who did grow up Jewish at the party. One of of them is my Speech Pathology mentor and longtime friend but she had not celebrated Passover since childhood. She brought amazing Matza balls though for everyone to enjoy and we had fun just spending time together:) The other person who grew up Jewish at the party was our guitar teacher (who was about 27 at the time) and had only celebrated Passover with his parents but had never hosted it on his own so without that experience he didn’t really know what/how to implement the traditions.
Anyway, at the end of the party I was telling our good family friends “It didn’t go exactly how I had thought. We didn’t even have a table, ect but I think the kids were at least exposed to the Passover celebration. It was awesome cause our guitar teacher Josh told the story of the Israelites Exodus from Egypt and sang a childhood song to them with his guitar. So it wasn’t all a Passover Celebration flunk.” Our dad friend was trying to console me a little and laughing said, “ We Christians like our bread like we like our Messiah, RISEN, anyways;)!” SO that made me feel a bit better and gave me a good laugh! Risen bread is much better tasting than unleavened bread:) Relationships with Jesus and friends over bread and wine are much better than rules/10 Commandments:) I still want to attend a real Passover Celebration/Sedar someday but in the meantime we have been having fun, getting creative and not eating leaven on Holy Thursday. We also watch the movie “The 10 Commandments” and listen to the song Exodus by Bob Marley:)
Sarah made our homemade He is Risen! Go Bananas Bread Recipe and we froze the dough so that we can eat fresh banana bread on Easter morning! He is Risen and so is our Bread, indeed;) Luke 24:6-7