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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also want to point out that most of the specifications around how we do the Seder aren’t in the Torah at all (the only overlap we have, textually, between us and Christians). They’re in the Talmud, the primary text of Rabbinical Judaism, which specifies traditional Jewish laws.

So by taking those specifications and putting Jesus in it, you’re literally drawing from a completely *Jewish* legal text. You’re not even taking from the Bible at all. [/quote]

There are very specific symbolic links between the Seder and Christian Faith. https://www.gotquestions.org/Passover-Seder.html[/quote]

That’s not the Passover Seder as Jews celebrate it. Again, that did not exist until after Jesus died. [/quote]

Let me be more specific: What that article does is insert Christian meaning into something that did not exist during Jesus’s time and which has nothing to do with Jesus. [/quote]

The actual Passover Seder, per se was not practiced during Jesus’ time, but everything celebrated in the Seder was known to him and understood by Christians to point to him. 
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This is factually wrong. The rabbinical Seder was not developed until after he died.[/quote]

How is it factually wrong? Just because Jesus was not alive when the Passover Seder tradition started does not mean the elements within the Seder don’t hold religious significance to Christians. For instance, “(For Christians) the meaning of the Seder’s ritual of the matzohs is understood with clues from the New Testament. The Trinity is pictured in the matzohs. The first matzoh that remains in the bag throughout the Seder represents Ha Av, the Father whom no man sees. The third matzoh represents the Ruach Ha Kodesh, the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. And the second matzoh, the broken one, represents Ha Ben, the Son. The reason the middle matzoh is broken is to picture the broken body of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:24). The half put back in the echad represents Jesus’ divine nature; the other half, wrapped in a linen cloth and separated from the echad represents Jesus’ humanity as He remained on earth.“

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It’s wrong because you’re imposing Christian meaning onto something that did not exist at that time. It’s religious appropriation.[/quote]

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