During the Passover Seder we begin our retelling the story of the Exodus when the question is sung: “Mah nishtanah ha-lailah ha-zeh mikol ha-leilot?” – What makes this night differ from all other nights? This is “the” central question of Passover, asked for thousands of years, and the answer is always the same: Avadim Hayinu: “We were slaves, but God redeemed us from bondage by the blood of the lamb (דַּם הַשֶּׂה).” Note again that there were not many lambs, but the LORD told Israel: “You shall keep it [i.e., the Passover lamb] until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter him (את) at twilight (Exod. 12:6). Each family put their trust in God’s uniquely appointed sacrifice to be delivered from the plague of death (מכת המוות).
There is no Passover apart from the blood of the Lamb of God….
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