(1615) Evening all as the final scenes are played out.

 

20. From an X commenter, re Seder

Christians should not go anywhere near it:

For Christians wishing Jews a “Happy Passover,” you’ve got no idea what you’re doing, what the holiday is actually about, or what those man-made post-temple Rabbinic traditions mean that are being observed. If you knew, you wouldn’t wish them a happy holiday.

First, keep in mind that all of the real rituals, given by God through Moses, for the real holiday, have been impossible to observe for roughly 1956 years. What they’re observing are new rites made up by rabbis, which are necessary when the thing the rituals were designed to foreshadow (Christ’s atonement) has already happened.

And what these new rituals are designed to show would blow your mind; chiefly, if you’re a Christian, it is designed as a hopeful longing for the day that God annihilates Christians and eternally damns their souls. The Seder’s fourth-cup ritual, the Shfoch Chamatkha (“Pour out Your wrath”) recitation, is explicitly directed at Christians.

Talmudic tractate sources, the Prague and Frankfurt Machzors, the Polish Siddurim, and Rabbi Abarbanel’s Sevach Pesach all confirm that the “nations” receiving four cups of divine vengeance are not some abstract theological category but Edom, which the rabbinic tradition consistently codes as Christianity. They drink it in anticipation of our destruction. But it doesn’t stop there.

The Shabbat HaGadol (the Saturday before Passover) prayer includes a petition comparing Christendom to “a ravening beast.” Day one prayers petition God to hew down the “bears, leopards, lions, and swine” (Persia, Greece, Babylon, and Rome/Christendom like pieces of slaughtered livestock.

Prayers offered on Day 2 and Day 7 aren’t any better. In fact, the entire Rabbinic Passover liturgy is built around a new typology: the Exodus from Egypt is the template, with Christians as the new Egyptians awaiting ten plagues and prayerful hope that God soon destroys us.

So while you think you’re being loving in wishing the Jews a happy and fun time at their anti-Jesus holiday, just know that they are cursing your existence and praying for your deaths and eternal destruction. “Happy Passover” is one of the dumber phrases that could ever be uttered by a Christian to a Jew. It’s not loving. It’s stupid and naive.

19. Moo corner

18. Further on what happened today

Chas3 no Easter address but Ramadamadingdong yes. Plus:

17. Zero Hedge

Trump Fires Pam Bondi As Attorney General

Update (1315ET): That didn’t take long – Bondi is out, according to Fox News and WSJ. 

Bondi met with Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday night ahead of his speech to the nation on the war in Iran, where she reportedly was informed of her ouster, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. 

16. Why Michelangelo did not paint The Last Supper

15. Women in charge of things publicly

14. Birthright no

13. Moo corner

12. The organised western fuel crisis