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Dear Rabbi, thanks for your e-mail.
You said:
According to the New Testament and the Word's of Yeshua's
[The true Hebrew name of Messiah] 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 remaining faithful Jews in secret. We changed our name
from
Belmonte to Schonberger in
1492 when we moved to Amsterdam.]
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?
"Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us . . ." (1 Corinthians 5:7)
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." (1 Corinthians 5:8)
Eric Ewanco
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