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Dear Rabbi, thanks for your email.
You said:
According to the New Testament and Yeshua's
[The true Hebrew name of Messiah] words Himself
(In the story of the last supper he says, "Do
this in remembrance of me", the act of Communion
is a remembrance (Also see 1 Corinthians 11.)
I speak as an ex-Catholic of the Passover Sacrifice (We are to celebrate Passover, not Easter.
Easter
is the English name of the Babylonian fertility
goddess Ishtar (pronounced eeshtar],
according to 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
According to Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary "Easter" comes
from the root of the English "east", not surprisingly, not from
Ishtar. Even if it did, English is virtually the only language in which
this is true. In nearly every other language, including Latin and Greek
which are the languages of the Catholic Church, the word for Easter is
either the same as the word for Passover or derived from it.
This highest feast of the year is the Christian Passover, where the Lamb
of God was sacrificed for our sins and rose again on the third day.
So it doesn't matter what name you give it: we are celebrating the same
event: the passion, death, and resurrection of Yeshua ha Mashiach, baruch
HaShem Adoni.
You said:
that Messiah gave for us Jews. By the way, my family
are converzios [Jews forced to convert to pagan Catholicism
but remained faithful Jews in secret; we changed our name from
"Belmonte" to "Schonberger" in 1492 when we moved
to Amsterdam], and to the Gentiles once and for all time! In Hebrews
(9 and 10) we are told that Messiah's death was the final sacrifice
for sins for all time, and that his sacrifice is eternal...that there
is no need for sacrifices anymore!
My question is:
Why do you go against the WORD OF GOD and offer needless
sacrifices for sins; was the cross not enough?
"Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us..." However,
as you know being a Jew, it is not enough to sacrifice the passover lamb.
The sacrificed lamb has to be eaten for it to have any effect.
The purpose of the sacrifice is to make present the once-for-all
sacrifice of Christ on the Cross so that we may eat of
its fruits and so be saved. Our Eucharist is one in the same sacrifice that
happened on the Cross; only its mode is different. "...
Therefore let us keep the feast."
Eric Ewanco
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