Nazarene Israel Passover Nazarene Passover Study, v2.1.1 Copyright © Nazarene Israel, 6020 (2020) Good use permitted. May be freely copied and distributed in full. Study Adapted from the Torah Calendar study. Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are adapted from the New King James Version Expanded Edition with Recipes (v2) with the original Hebraic names restored. For more Nazarene Israel studies, please visit: www.nazareneisrael.org. For questions, comments, suggestions, or By Norman B. Willis donations, please contact: [email protected] 2 Table of Contents Preface 5 Passover in the Original Covenant 7 Passover in the Renewed Covenant 23 Passover Seder Recommendations 33 Determining the Passover Dates 41 Ancient Circumcision (information only) 69 Unleavened Bread Recipes (also on website) 75 Breads 81 Crackers 93 Desserts 98 Breakfasts 111 Dishes 116 Other Recipes 118 3 4 Preface to be older, and are therefore more valuable for textual analysis. There are many different theories about which calendar I believe Scripture is the highest and best authority on to use. While the correct calendar is very important, it is all matters of doctrine. Rather than list a bunch of also neither an Acts 15 issue, nor an ethical issue. I keep footnotes from other authors, I simply try to show what the calendar I feel convicted of (which is the aviv barley Yahweh’s word states, giving only what commentary is calendar), but I also try to give my brothers favor, and needed to show how the verses relate to each other. My allow them to keep the calendars they feel convicted of. hope is that you will focus on Yahweh’s words, rather than my own. Romim (Romans) 14:4-5 4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his If you have suggestions for making this study better, own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be please email me at [email protected]. May made to stand, for Elohim is able to make him Yahweh lead us all into His perfect truth. stand. 5 One person esteems one day above another; Norman Willis another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. If you keep a different calendar, please adjust the start dates according to your calendar, and use what you can find of value. Some ask what English version I use. I begin with the New King James Version, and change the names to Hebraic forms. When it will help, I display the source texts alongside the English. The Hebrew is from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. Aramaic is copied from the Peshitta Aramaic in BibleWorks 8. Some ask why I would reference Greek texts when I believe in a Semitic inspiration. I believe the Renewed Covenant was inspired in Hebrew or Aramaic, but I do not see how the two existing Aramaic texts (Peshitto and Peshitta) can be the originals, since there are so many Hellenizations (“Greek-isms”). The Greek texts appear 5 6 Passover in the Original Covenant Colossians 2:16-17 BGT Colossians 2:16 16 Let no man therefore 16 Μὴ οὖν τις ὑμᾶς judge you in meat, or in κρινέτω ἐν βρώσει καὶ At the time of this writing, Nazarene Israel is in the drink, or in respect of an ἐν πόσει ἢ ἐν μέρει holyday, or of the new dispersion. Since neither the Tanach (“Old” Covenant) ἑορτῆς ἢ νεομηνίας ἢ nor the Brit Chadasha (Renewed Covenant) address moon, or of the sabbath what to do in the dispersion, it can be difficult to know days: σαββάτων· what to do. Matters are made worse by the rabbinical 17 Which are a shadow 17 ἅ ἐστιν σκιὰ τῶν traditions, most of which directly contradict Yahweh’s of things to come; but the μελλόντων, τὸ δὲ σῶμα words. body of Messiah τοῦ Χριστοῦ. In order to understand how to celebrate the Passover in Colossians 2:16-17 says to let no one except the body the dispersion, let us understand the Passover story. of Messiah judge us in what we eat, what we drink, or in First let us look at the first Passover in Egypt, and then what festival days we keep. That is, we should only take let us look at Yeshua’s sacrifice. This will show us advice on these things from the body of Messiah. This is several key principles, which we can apply no matter because the festivals are prophetic shadow pictures of what situation we find ourselves in. things still to come. For example, while our forefathers went through the first exodus, we and our children will Passover is a one-day festival which is followed by undergo a second exodus, in the future. seven days of Unleavened Bread. While these two festivals are technically separate, they run together Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 23:7-8 seamlessly, Unleavened Bread (ULB) beginning just as 7 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the Passover ends. Because of this, these two festivals Yahweh, "that they shall no longer say, 'As are often thought of as one long eight-day festival—and Yahweh lives who brought up the children of Israel indeed, Yahweh also refers to them in this way. from the land of Egypt,' 8 but, 'As Yahweh lives who brought up and led the Passover and Unleavened Bread speak of Israel’s descendants of the house of Israel from the north redemption from slavery and bondage. Since we are country and from all the countries where I had presently in bondage in spiritual Egypt (i.e., the world), driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own we still need to keep these festivals today. Indeed, as land." we explain in The Torah Calendar and in Nazarene Israel, the festivals still serve as shadow pictures of Children learn how to behave through their training. If we coming prophetic events. This becomes apparent from raise them up to do what Yahweh says in His Torah a close reading of Colossians 2:16-17 in the source (without adding or taking away), then when the time texts. comes for the second exodus, our children will have a much better idea what to do. This is one application of 7 8 the principle in Proverbs, that we should train up our Pharaoh, of course, was not about to let his laborers go, children in the way they should go, so that when they are and so he refused to let Israel go. At this point, Yahweh older, they will not depart from it. brought a series of plagues upon Egypt. Mishle (Proverbs) 22:6 In Exodus 11, Yahweh tells Moshe that He will bring a 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And tenth and final plague upon Egypt, and that this plague when he is old he will not depart from it. will be so horrible that Pharaoh will drive Israel out of Egypt, just to be rid of them and the plagues. One of the most important things to know about the (1) ַויֹּא ֶמר ְיה ָוה ֶאל Passover, then, is that we are preparing our children to Shemote (Exodus) 11:1 leave spiritual bondage in the world. Just like the first 1 And Yahweh said to ֹמ ֶשׁה עוֹד ֶ ַגע ֶא ָחד exodus, our children will need to be part of a greater Moshe, "I am bringing yet ָא ִביא ַעל ַפּ ְר ֹעה ְו ַעל overall nation of Israel, whom Yahweh will lead, and one more plague on protect. ִמ ְצ ַר ִים ַא ֲח ֵרי ֵכן Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that he is ְי ַשׁ ַלּח ֶא ְת ֶכם ִמ ֶזּה | Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 52:12 going to let you go from ְכּ ַשׁ ְלּחוֹ ָכּ ָלה ָגּ ֵרשׁ For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by here. When he lets you“ 12 ְי ָג ֵרשׁ ֶא ְת ֶכם ִמ ֶזּה flight; For Yahweh will go before you, And the go, he shall drive you out Elohim of Israel will be your rear guard.” from here altogether.” While we don’t know that the second exodus will look which is ,( ָגּ ֵרשׁ ְי ָג ֵרשׁ) ,The word “drive” is garesh y’garesh exactly like the first one, there will be a second exodus, a doubling of the meaning to drive out. and so we need to train our children to expect one. This is where we catch up with the original Passover story. OT:1644 garash (gaw-rash'); a primitive root; to drive out from a possession; especially to In Torah Government and in other places, we explain expatriate or divorce: that while Pharaoh was an evil tyrant, one reason Yahweh allowed Israel to go into slavery in Egypt was to That Yahweh said Pharaoh would “drive” Israel out of help forge a sense of national identity. Had Pharaoh not Egypt shows us the exodus was not a slow event, but a held the tribes together after Israel’s death, they would rapid one. likely have drifted apart. While this was a blessing, it was surely a blessing in disguise, because pharaoh In the next verse, days before the actual exodus was to attempted to wipe the Israelites out. Israel’s cries take place, Yahweh told Moshe to have the children of reached Yahweh’s ears, and Yahweh sent Moshe Israel plunder Egypt, by asking the Egyptians for objects (Moses) to tell pharaoh to let His people go. of silver and gold. The language seems to indicate that the children of Israel asked for these objects right away, 9 10 (6) ְו ָה ָיה ָל ֶכם since “Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Exodus 12:6 Egyptians” at that time.