They celebrate the Passover, another marker of their identity as God's people, and they no longer have to eat the manna of the wilderness. |
With the twelve disciples, in a large upper room, Jesus observed the Passover supper. |
Each of the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot is dedicated to examining and refining one of them. |
The Tosefta's seder, I am suggesting, is an early attempt at fashioning a Passover night celebration without a paschal lamb. |
Pot and utensils that cannot be koshered are put away and replaced with Passover dishes. |
This requirement is based on the Biblical injunction that during Passover no chometz be eaten. |