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[quote=Anonymous]Another Jew here. I too find it strange that Christians would have seders and call them seders. If they have a commemorative meal around Easter, that's one thing, but to call it a seder implies (to me anyway) that it is the same as or a close variation on a Jewish seder. And that is strange to me. The traditional seder celebrates liberation from bondage and calls upon Jews to remember their history of persecution and slavery, and to work for the coming of the Messiah. Christians, as far as I know, don't have the same cultural memory of persecution, and they believe the Messiah has already come. So how can they hold a traditional seder? It just doesn't compute.

I may be more sensitive than most because in college I had Jewish friends who went to seders held by Jews for Jesus and then tried to convert me, which was intensely uncomfortable. Most Jews really don't do the Jews-for-Jesus thing.

Also, for those who contend that Christian seders are just recreating Jesus' experience ... not if it's based on a modern Jewish seder, they aren't. Historical seders were completely different. The rules were different, the foods were different. Pretty much all religious traditions (other than perhaps the rules of kashruth/keeping kosher) were completely different in the days of the Temple, when Jesus lived. Current religious traditions and rules grew up after the Temple was finally destroyed. Whatever seder Jesus attended wouldn't look anything like a modern seder.

So, anyway, I understand where OP is coming from. I can't imagine Catholics would like it if Jews decided to start celebrating mass but did it completely differently from centuries of tradition, and claimed it was still somehow authentic.[/quote]

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