Jewish Passover Seder

The Jewish Passover Seder is the featured event during the Jewish Passover festival. It serves to emphasize timeless lessons learned from historical events in the lives of the ancestors of the Jewish people, the Hebrews. The Jewish Passover Seder must be conducted according to a specific set of steps in order for it to be accepted by G-d. There are 15 Steps in all, and each step has its own set of ordered rituals.

The purpose of the 15 structured Steps used to properly conduct the Jewish Passover Seder meal is to show the participants how the Hebrews were elevated by G-d from a state of mind where they were not even permitted to think and actualize themselves so that they could reach their full potential as human beings, to being given that opportunity by G-d, once the Hebrews were out of Egypt, to realize that goal for themselves and ultimately, to help realize that goal for all humanity. As a result, the 15 Steps outline how the Hebrews were transformed from a position of political and physical slavery in Egypt, to contemporary times, where many Jewish people have attained their political and physical freedom from oppression, to turning one's eyes toward the future, where the goal of politically and physically free Jewish people is to help Jews - as well as all other people - living under oppression, to attain their own political and physical freedom so that they too, can realize their own potential as human beings. The ultimate goal is that by helping to free humanity from oppression, each individual can be free to attain their emotional and spiritual zenith, which helps set the stage for Messianic Times, according to Judaism. In Messianic Times, justice, peace, and freedom for all will be characterized by being one long, continuous day. As is biblically commanded by G-d for the Hebrews/Jewish people to do, on an annual basis, we remember, remind, and reinforce within ourselves at the Jewish Passover Seder table that we must continue to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt and its timeless messsages not only amongst the participants at the Seder table and to Jewish people in general according to the social, political, and/or religious stream of Judaism they understand, but to as many people as possible so that they too, are inspired by the events that took place so long ago.

The 15 Steps for conducting the Jewish Passover Seder meal are found in the "instruction manual" for conducting the Jewish Passover Seder, known in Hebrew as the "Haggadah", which means either "telling" or "narration", since we tell or narrate the story of the Exodus from Egypt in the 5th Step of the 15 Steps. In order to help spread the messages contained in the story of the Exodus from Egypt, it is necessary to allow different interpretations of the various events in the Exodus story as well as in the symbolisms of the foods that are placed on the Seder table according to one's social, political, and/or religious stream of beliefs. Therefore, there are over 3,000 different types of Haggadahs ("Haggadot" in Hebrew) that have been published to achieve this end. While the basic story of the Exodus is the same for all Haggadahs, the meanings and interpretations of the events and food symbols have varied, but all Haggadah versions are alike in that they all serve to achieve the goal of attaining political and physical freedom from oppression for all humanity so that each individual can achieve freedom from their personal shortcomings that they endured while under oppression.

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