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Washing the Hands before Eating Karpas |
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The second activity of the traditional Passover Seder is to wash your hands before you eat the karpas. Note, however, that the blessing recited for handwashing (netilat yadayim) is intentionally left unrecited at this point in the service. |
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Hand Washing Procedure |
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The seder leader calls out, "U'rchatz!" and then everyone present will begin the ceremony of washing their hands. |
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Jesus and Urchatz |
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It is possible that the Jesus washed His disciples feet at this point of the early Seder he had with the disciples. Imagine the disciples passing the urchatz pan from person to person for the ritual cleansing of hands. Then, |
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"Jesus laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." |
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Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you." For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean." When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?" (John 13:4-12) |
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