Passover

Passover 2018

This year we smoked the lamb anmd it was AMAZING.We also tried a new marinade and the children especially loved it.

Lamb Marinade

1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/3 cup tomato sauce (canned, not jarred spaghetti sauce)
1/3 cup water
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1/6 cup brown sugar
2 Tablespoons butter
salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste
Bring to a boil in a small saucepan. Simmer for 5 minutes, whisking occasionally.

Burning the leftovers:

This year my younger 2 also made a Matzoh house.

 

Passover 2017

 Searching for leaven:

 

 

 

Preparing:

Painting The Doorposts:

 

The Meal:

 

 

Finding the Afikomen:

Passover 2014

This year we read more of our Haggadah than we usually do. When we first bought it, I had highlighted the parts I wanted to do, keeping the ages of my children in mind. But now they are older, so I highlighted even more.

We also tried a new seasoning on our lamb, and it was a huge hit!

Another new thing we did, was turn the "River' into "blood". Abigail was having trouble visualizing what was going on as we read about the plagues in Egypt, so we showed her how Aaron dipped his staff in the "river" and it turned to "blood". I dipped the tip of a black pen into the teensiest bit of red food coloring gel. You could not see it on the pen, but when you put it in the water, it turned the water red.

Then we did most of the traditions we usually do.

Searching for Leaven.

Painting the doorposts

Andrew found the Afikomen

The Most Delicious Lamb

I kept seeing Rogan Josh seasoning on Pinterest, and decided Passover was the perfect time to finally  try it out, (since it is the only day of the year we typically eat lamb). 

 I took a few recipes and adapted them to what I had in my pantry and tried it on our lamb steaks.

 It was so delicious!  Usually we only eat the lamb because it is Passover, but I would absolutely eat this other times of the year because it was so delicious!

Rogan Josh Seasoning:

  2 tablespoons paprika
  1 1/2 tablespoons cumin
  1 1/2 tablespoons coriander
  2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1  teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon ginger powder

1/4 teaspoon cardamom

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Unleavened Bread

You will notice that the matzah is unleavened; in its baking it is pierced, it is striped. Unleavened because it is to be without contamination; yeast being a symbol of sin throughout the Scriptures. Pierced and striped, it is a beautiful illustration of our Messiah, who being without sin, was striped and pierced for our sin.

"I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn." Zechariah 12:10

^"They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones.They look and stare at Me.  They divide My garments among them,And for My clothing they cast lots." Psalm 22:16-18

"He was pierced through for our transgressions,  He was crushed for our iniquities;  The punishment for our peace was upon Him,  And by His scourging we are healed." Isaiah 53:5
The matzah is unleavened, sinless, as our Messiah is sinless. It is striped, as our Messiah was whipped. It is pierced as were our Messiah's hands, feet and side.

Jewish tradition holds to three pieces of unleavened bread(matzah) to celebrate the feast of Passover. The center is broken in half and then wrapped in a small cloth and hidden. This is called the Afikomen and is an important part of the Seder service. The reason the middle piece is broken is not clear in Jewish tradition, but it is clear to believers in the Messiah. 
The Trinity of God is represented (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), and the Afikomen is significant, in that it is a picture of Jesus. 

Is it not significant that it is this middle matzah, which was broken is hidden away, finally to be brought back, broken and distributed, that it was this piece that Jesus points to and says "this is MY body, which is given for you"?  The very word Afikomen means "I have come".

(Just as Jesus was wrapped in cloth, hidden in the tomb, then resurrected and found again.)

"And He took  bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, this is my body given for you, do this in remembrance of Me." Luke 22:19

"Take, eat, this is my body." Matthew 26:26

If you are a believer in Messiah, you can eat this as a communion, reminding yourself what happened in the upper room of the Last Supper. As you eat it, remember what Christ did for you, He came and gave himself for your sins.

~Quoted from our Haggadah

Passover 2013

On that day, tell your son the story of Passover, tell of God's redemptive grace.

Passover tells us how God redeemed His people by His mighty power, from the bondage of Egypt first, to get us ready for Him to  redeem His people from  the bondage of sin. Passover is the story of redemption by the shedding of blood of our Passover Lamb, Jesus. 

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. God taught us to keep the Passover as a memorial of the physical salvation He wrought in Egypt and to keep the Messiah's Passover in memory of the spiritual salvation which He wrought from sin. 

This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come, you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord-a lasting ordinance. Exodus 12:1

We rejoice that is Jesus' death we have found life. In Messiah's coming the Passover is completed.

Jesus is the "Lamb of God" who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29

We, who by faith, have experienced the Lord's Passover have been redeemed from  the bondage of sin. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ." Romans 6:11

And He took the unleavened bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them saying "This is my body given for you, do this in remembrance of Me." Luke 22:19

Truly we can say Hallelujah for the great redemption which God wrought on our behalf; redemption at a terrific price; in Egypt the death of the firstborn; Redemption from sin, the death of God's firstborn Son. 

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

 As believers, we have great hope in the fact that someday {soon} the Messiah is coming back again to take up His followers to be with Him.

"For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up with them int he clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will b e with the Lord forever.  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

~all quoted from our Haggadah

 Soundtrack:
Passover Us: http://www.andrew-peterson.com/players/btlog/beholdthelamb.html

By His Wounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3LHI19xxk4

Passover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR56clP-E8s