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Lulav
19th April 2008, 11:52 AM
Reading through the Story in Exodus, 12: 21 we see Moshe calls all the leaders of Israel and tells them to select and take for your families the lambs and slaughter the passover. The to take a bunch of hyssop and smear it on the mezzuzah.

then none of you is to go out the door to his house until morning. For Adonai will pass through to kill the Egyptians; but when he sees the blood on the top and on the two sides, Adonai will pass over the door and will not allow the slaughterer to enter your house and kill you . You are to observe this as a law, you and your descendants forever.


I am wondering about the command included in this passage to stay in your house until morning. if we are to keep this regulation forever, does that also mean that after the Seder no one is to leave? Should families stay together until morning?


Is there any first born Jewish males here, did you keep the fast of the first born?

Lulav
19th April 2008, 01:52 PM
I always love this part

40 The time the people of Isra'el lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of 430 years to the day, all the divisions of ADONAI left the land of Egypt.

42 This was a night when ADONAI kept vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt, and this same night continues to be a night when ADONAI keeps vigil for all the people of Isra'el through all their generations.