Subject: Getting Ready for Passover
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:20:04 +0000
From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Reply-To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
From: "HaY'Did" <shalom@haydid.org>
Organization: HaY'Did Learning Center
To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: Passover
Dear Mishpachah (family):
On our website we have just posted a small pageant, WHICH YOU
CAN PUT ON FOR PASSOVER. It is based on Leonardo deVinci's
Painting of The Lord's Supper Adaptation---an Adaptation, okay?
Note: Leonardo deVinci's THE LORD'S SUPPER painting is a very popular
Maudy Thursday program in many churches today. One of our volunteers
took this basic program and added the Hebraic flavor of a mini-seder
back into the meal. The whole program with the Coordinator's Guide is
available on our website for you to view or print off. There is a
mini-haggadah (booklet), too, that you may distribute to the
attendees, too. This was done very successfully within a
denominational setting. Over one hundred people attended and were
blessed. It was completed within 90 minutes and included a pot
blessing meal within that time, and even one group dance was taught.
If you would like printed copies of this, we will be glad to provide
them. Contact our office by email at shalom@haydid.org for delivery
and pricing. Our thanks to Dana Hart for making this program available
to us.
Coordinator's Information
Let me describe how this evening was presented: First, the pastor's
committee decided to allow us to modify the standard presentation as
described above. Once the modifications were approved, we submitted a
plan with the script to the pastor's committee well in advance to
allow for a leisurely time to assemble all the needed people and
rehearse extesively arriving at the event well rehearsed and
relaxed....and anyone who believes that may also be interested in
buying a certain bridge in New York that my cousin Vino has for sale!
Hahaha!
So, NOW with a good laugh, let us describe what happened...for years
our friend Dana had faithfully attended our groups passover seder. And
each year she sat in her denominational church waiting and waiting for
the opportunity to share the festivals of God with her church family.
Dana was and is the youth director of her church, so for the last six
years, she has celebrated a few of the feasts with her teenager
followers, and would make the announcement of each festival in her
adult Sunday School Class. With a groan, the adults would endure her
announcement and just shake their heads. Whatever would they do with
Sweet Dana? But endured they did! Over and over, she would smuggle a
few of her teenagers into our groups seder, and pray that a fire would
be lit within her church. But alas...she sat alone.
The pastors came and went as they often do, and finally one arrived
that would give Sweet Dana the time of day. She went to the board
meeting each month only to hear the usual things, and then the new
pastor seemed to ---maybe---possibly show some interest. Could it be?
Perhaps? This might be the year? Finally in March the ladies of the
church said that it was their tradition to present Leonardo deVinci's
THE LORD'S SUPPER every other year, and this was THE YEAR. With a
groan, Dana's eyes crossed and she just sat there waiting for the
proverbial, "Go ahead and do it" from the powers that be. Sure enough!
It came! But with it, came the knowledge that "it won't hurt to ask
ONE MORE TIME" so Dana asked if perhaps THIS YEAR, she might use the
youth to be involved in this event and to help add a few "Jewish
things" to enhance the evening. Suspiciously, the pastor's committee,
said, "Like what?" Gently Dana assured them that it would truly be a
wonderful "mini seder". After the usual, "how much time are we
talking, Dana" she assured them that it might be 90 minutes. The
ladies reminded her that it was traditionally a pot luck supper, so
there would have to be time to eat included in the evening. Little by
little Dana worked on adding first the matzah, and then other things
until it was finished.
Frantically at about 4 pm on the day of the event, it was finished and
she was ready to go. She had told everyone to bring pot luck dinner
--- but just no pork, okay? The costumes were dug out of the closet in
the choir room, so that all the disciples would be dressed in period
costumes. Then they were ready!
As we arrived we were shown to a table where there was water and
towels to wash our hands. She had teenagers there acting as our guide
to get us seated with a chosen disciple. We grinned when our disciple
turned out to be one of our neighbors! What fun! He was Bartholomew.
It didn't quiet his nerves when he realized that we were Dana's
teachers for the last six or seven years! hehehehhe but he said,
"Well, atleast I won't have to worry too much about the teaching
portion. If I screw up, then you will be there to help bail me out!"
We laughed and looked around. Everyone had brought their assigned
covered dishes and teenagers were taking them to the kitchen. Believe
it or not, they had dug out the real church dishes! Not paper! REAL
dishes and glasses! Wow! (By the way, paper plates ARE kosher.
REALLY!)Everything looked great! Each disciples' wife was asked to
bring a table cloth and to set the table very nicely. In the middle fo
the table was a china plate with all the elements on them. Salt and
pepper shakers were right there next to the salt water for the
dipping, and the bulletin was on each plate. The disciples were asked
to go to their places at the head table, and the pastor began with an
astonishing statement, "Tonight we are blessed to share in a teaching
of our Messiah Yeshua. You know, HE was a Jew. All of His disciples
were Jews. The Bible was written by Jews, and tonight we are going to
see HIM through Jewish eyes. We've been robbed of much of this
knowledge, and we must begin to see this festival and the others
through HIS eyes for the first time." WOW! Tom and I were spell bound
for the next 90 minutes as this group of over one hundred
denominational people, saw HIM through Hebraic eyes again! What a
wonderful sight to behold! Tears flowed! The group dance was more like
a "push, shove, wait for the man next to Tom on the walker to shift
his weight" but by the time it was finished, we had all laughed and
shouted for joy in our Messiah! Every once in a while we would hear a
"glory hallalujah" out of this little old gray haired lady, or see
someone smile sweetly at the person next to them that had just stepped
on their toe in the group round dance, but it was a delight to be part
of this! When dinner was served our teenage "gopher" got to choose
what we adults were going to eat. He chose what he liked: creamed
chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and something else white that I can't
remember. Tom and our neighbor cocked their head and said, "Anyone
wanna trade something for anything green or yellow?" The guy at the
next table had an abundant supply of jellos, so he graciously traded
for something else that we had. It was quite a trading event around
the room! We were admonished to eat while our disciple shared about
the seder plate in front of us. Our Bartholomew just chuckled as all
the people at our table had been to seders down through the years with
our group, so we asked if we could share some things about those
seders with him. We had just found out about afikoman being a Greek
word within a Hebrew service, and that the word was of first century
origin, so that was a wonderful nugget to share with everyone. Of
course, we had to eat and talk quickly, but it was great fun!
The players then went forth to finish the play as the children were
dismissed to the children's area to play
We want to share this service with you, too. It is posted on our
webiste and if you do not have access to our webiste, PLEASE contact
us and we will be glad to email it by attachment to you. If you want
to adapt the service, feel free to save the service to a disc in a
"txt format". We did not add any graphics because we wanted anyone to
be able to use it. If you do use it, will you drop us a line and let
us know that you will be using it and after it is over, will you
please drop us a note and tell us how it went? We'd appreciate it very
much.
Shalom IN HIM as OUR MESSIAH YESHUA,
Cheryle Holeman and the Volunteers of HaY'Did HaY'Did Learning Center
PO BOX 804 Independence,
KS 67301
1-316-331-7712 (credit card orders) http://www.haydid.org
shalom@haydid.org
>From Eddie:
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It is not too early to begin preparing and planning for
Passover! Several years ago, I worked with Cheyle to produce a
traditional Passover Haggadah and Seder service which contains
the Hebraic understanding of each aspect of the Passover Seder.
This entire Passover Haggadah is posted at the Hebraic Heritage Web
page located at:
http://www.hebroots.org/hhmi.htm
For all of our Pastors and church leaders and teachers who
desire to have a Passover Seder service this year, this Haggadah
contains every instruction and explains the Hebraic understanding of
each aspect of the Passover Seder service. How much easier can it
get? If you would like to order copies of this Haggadah for Passover
this year, Cheryle will need to know how many Passover Haggadah
books she needs based upon your orders. She will also ship the
Haggadah's to you as well.
I also have a demonstration Passover Seder video of myself
doing a Passover Seder several years ago using this Haggadah. If any
members would like to order this video, please send me an e-mail
letting me know if you would like a copy. If you would like BOTH the
Passover Haggadah book and video, please also let both of us know
about your wishes in this area as well. If you would like this
video, let me know at the newsgroup e-mail address of:
heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
and please put in the subject line: "Passover Video"
Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l
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From: Kamsinger <Kamsinger@aol.com>
To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: Passover in San Diego area
Eddie, I know this may be a little early to start thinking about Passover
but
we need to plan ahead and I was wondering if you could put the word out for
those on your list who live in the San Diego, CA area? Tree of Life
Messianic
Congregation in San Diego is planning to have a community Seder for
Passover.
We would like to invite members of this newsgroup who live in our area to
participate. Anyone interested please e-mail me, Kathleen Marion at
Kamsinger@aol.com. Please give me your name, address, phone, and
church/home
group name.
Thanks!
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