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Nahariya, Israel. Shabbat,
April 12th, 2025 יד' בניסן, ה'תשפ"ה
“How can we celebrate such a holiday while 133 people are still without their freedom, still waiting to be liberated?” (The Jerusalem Post).
We are also told that 59 hostages are left in the hands of Hamas, and 24 of them are alive.
In my opinion, even 1 hostage is one too many. Especially on Passover, the holiday which commemorates the miracle of Israel coming out of slavery in Egypt to freedom.
The Pesach Seder is tonight.
I am looking forward to it, like every year. It will be my 79th Seder, and I know it will be different than all others before this one. They are never the same. Similar, but always different. Even in the same family with the same people. The traditions vary from year to year, from family to family, from Eda to Eda (community; assembly; flock), from one country of origin to another. Israelis gathered from everywhere and brought with them their private memories, different languages and their own specific cultures. Traditions of more than 2,500 years old will be celebrated tonight around tables across the world. The Seder unites us as one nation while celebrating the differences. Hard to explain, hard to accept, but still points up to the Glory of God. He is the gatherer, He is the creator of all, including the miracles of the season and the gathering of His people back to their land.
I celebrated my 79th birthday yesterday, or, according to my son, I started my 80th year.
Whatever. I don't feel older, only tired more often.
Yeshua is still my Lord and Saviour as He will continue to be so forever in this world and in the next.
I see glimpses of the next stage of our lives, and it is good. It must be my optimism. All the news points toward mayhem and disaster, but as Billy Graham used to say, “I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.”
HAPPY PESACH, EVERYONE.
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Happy passover
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