{"id":139,"date":"2007-04-03T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-04-03T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T05:36:12","slug":"happy-pesach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pesach"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won’t go into the whole Passover story, like I did for Purim<\/a>.  However, I thought this was an interesting side note.<\/p>\n

Most of us know the story about the Jews escaping from hard labor in Egypt.  Not enough time to rise the bread, so we eat Matzah, yadda yadda, and then the parting of the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

What few know is that actually, it didn’t go like things did in The Ten Commandments.  The Jews didn’t arrive at the banks of the Red Sea and suddenly things just opened up for them.  In fact, at first, (the story tells us), nothing at all happened.  It wasn’t until every Jew had completely immersed themselves before the miracle of the parting of the Sea occurred.  In fact, the story goes on to say that most had to go in far enough that they actually could not breathe until the sea was parted.<\/p>\n

This was an extraordinary leap of faith.  No one knew for sure what to do next or what would happen, only that their God would see them through.  And only when things got as bad as they possibly could get (as with the faithful who dove in over their heads) did divine intervention save them.  <\/p>\n

This story tells us a lot.  First, that faith – most importantly – is required for God’s intervention.  Second, even when God was imposing his will in the form of miracles that saved the Nation of Israel, personal human choice was required to make those miracles happen.  Faith first, and choice second.  That’s the way it has always been, even in the days of the Passover.<\/p>\n

Happy Passover. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I won’t go into the whole Passover story, like I did for Purim.  However, I thought this was an interesting side note. Most of us know the story about the Jews escaping from hard labor in Egypt.  Not enough time to rise the bread, so we eat Matzah, yadda yadda, and then the parting of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t