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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oops! Forgot to include #3 - not sure what you meant by Christians discarding the Tanakh except for the Ten Commandments. I don’t believe this is true, although there are laws, etc. that modern Jews and Christians don’t follow. 
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I mean, there’s plenty that Christians embrace that are totally antithetical to what Jews believe.

Judaism isn’t some primitive version of Christianity.[/quote]

Of course not; I wasn’t suggesting it is. [/quote]

But that’s what you imply when you talk about how Christians should be able to just celebrate Christian Seders, when Jesus wouldn’t have had a Passover Seder, as they didn’t exist then. Passover existed, but not as a Seder.

Why not just acknowledge it as the Last Supper? Maudy Thursday is all about that, right? How is incorporating elements of a rabbinical Passover Seder enhancing or informing Christianity, when those traditions didn’t start until 70-600 years after Jesus died? [/quote]

actually it goes deeper than Maundy Thursday, although that is traditionally when the Last Supper is in the liturgy. For Catholics and other denominations, communion — a central sacrament, if not the most important one — is entirely in commemoration of “Jesus’s Passover.” That is why the communion host is unlevened and everyone drinks a ritual sip of wine.  The Eucharistic Prayer includes the Last Supper and expresses thanks for Christ as the Lamb of God/Paschal Sacrifice. Christians who feel they need to “celebrate passover” should maybe go to a communion service?[/quote]

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