Kosher Wine

6. Wine is a part of a Catholic ritual where wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ and Christianity began in the Roman Empire and became an important force in Europe after the change between Emperor Constantine. Wine was also uses for medical purposes as a pain killer.

Passover is one of the most widely observed holidays and one of the most sacred to the Jewish people. It is a time of songs, family, and celebration. During this time, the Jews commemorate the bondage of the Israelites to Egypt. This weeklong celebration includes several rituals such as the meal known as the seder, removal of leavened bread and readings from the Haggadah. Passover customs between the Yemenites (Eastern Jews) and the European Jews vary in certain ways. One variation is in their musical interpretations of the Passover seder.

Passover and Easter have many hidden representational art and iconography that are reflected in the historical stories behind Judaism and Christianity. For Jewish people, the Exodus story narrated the Israelite’s liberation from slavery in Egypt which

Now then, incline thine ear to me and hear my words, and give heed, thou Jew. Many a time does thou boast thyself, in that thou didst condemn Jesus of Nazareth to death, and didst give him vinegar and gall to drink; and thou dost vaunt thyself because of this. Come, therefore, and let us consider together whether perchance thou dost boast unrighteously, O, Israel, and whether thou small portion of vinegar and gall has not brought down this fearful threatening upon thee and whether this is not the cause of thy present condition involved in these myriad of troubles.5

The Passover was the first of the three great festivals of the Hebrew people. Passover is celebrated to commemorate their freedom by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. The Israelites were instructed to swear the blood of the slaughtered spring lamb on their doorposts of their homes. Upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord knew to “pass over” the first-born of these homes. God helped the children of Israel escape from this slavery by inflicting ten plagues upon the land. HE destroyed all the firstborn of Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to let His people go. Passover was observed on the 14th day of the first month, Abib, with the service beginning in the evening (Lev. 23:6). It was on the

The Passover in Hebrew is known as Pesach. It begins in the Sunset of Monday, April 10, 2017, and ends at the nightfall of Tuesday, April 18, 2017. The Pesach is depicted in the book of Exodus 12:23. It describes the day when God passed over Israelites. During the Passover, the Israelites usually celebrate their Liberation from the Egyptian bondage. This is when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt. The Passover is also considered to be one of the most theologically important holidays in the Jewish calendar. It normally goes for eight days but in other communities, it lasts for only one week. The Jews are prohibited to eat any bread or leavened food. They are only allowed

Hanukkah or” Chanukah” is an eight day and eight nights Jewish holiday established on the 25 of Kislev (Macaulay).Hanukkah dates are different every year. For 2015 Hanukkah is celebrated on the 6th of December thru December 14th (Chabad). Hanukkah is a celebration of the Jews victory against the Greek and the oil that lasted eight days and eight nights in the Holy Temple (ifcg). The origin of Hanukkah comes from the heroic victory from the Greeks.

Finally, Jews and Christians interacted differently in their society. First, eating habits differed in both religions. Jews participate in kashrut, a diet that restricts eating any animal without cloven hooves or scales. Christians, however, don’t have any specific dietary laws to follow. Another difference is the significance of Passover, a 7-8 day Jewish holiday. During Passover, Jews celebrate the exodus out of Egypt by eating special meals, performing rituals, and praying. Christians have changed the Passover meal to a celebration of the Last Supper, or Jesus’ last meal before his crucifixion. Finally, a similarity in the Jewish and Christian society is the

Wine was originally very scarce and exotic, meaning the only people to really drink it were very powerful, prestigious, and privileged people. It was mainly drunk during public meetings and debates, or symposia’s, to express one’s self much more freely. While beer was known to have medicinal benefits, wine was known to clean wounds.

Passover is one of the oldest festivals in the world. This festival falls in spring, in the first month of the Hebrew year, called Nisan (March-April), and lasts for eight days, from the fifteenth to the twenty-third. It commemorates the release of the Israelites from Egypt and the fact that God “passed over” their houses when he sought the first-born in that land.

Wine is made of fermented juice of crushed grapes stored over time. “Natural yeasts, present on the grape skins, convert the sugars in the juice into alcohol.” Explains author, Tom Standage [page 47]. One-way wine was consumed, by the Greeks, was by mixing water with the wine before intake. In order to figure out how much wine to add, the Greeks used ratios to determine the amount of water to wine. Wine started out as a drink for the wealthy, which involved “drinking parties”, called Symposions. Eventually, it didn’t matter whether you drank wine or not. What mattered was which type of wine you

“According to Boas, during the exposure of the fallacy of Nazi racial ideology he stated that, “every person is supposed to have a definite, unalterable character according to his racial descent and his political and social status” (1938:226 as cited in Scupin, 2012, pg. 157). This shaping who we are today, a world filled with difference as well as similarities as to our culture, our diversity; and our religious practices to which has changed over the years from generation to generation. Just like when speaking of the Jewish faith many people see them as being different, for their practices and beliefs are unusual in nature than how others see religion. For example, in the Catholic’s or Orthodox Christians celebrate the birth of Christ; and worship our beloved God on the 25th day in December or Christmas. Whereas, in the Jewish faith they celebrate Hanukkah starting on the 24th day of December and carrying through to the 1st of January; this is known as celebration of lights. In the more western Christian traditions, Christmas is carried out from December 25th until the 6th of January; and on the 6th day is celebrated as we know it to be as The Three Kings. Though, Jews and Catholic have similarities in their traditional celebrations as to honoring the saints, their differences are somewhat usual than most religion that being that on Friday night it is their Day of Silence and family togetherness, where in the Catholic tradition Sunday is a day for worship, family; and complete rest. However, in order to know the differences between these ethnicities, we first need to eliminate Judaism from being considered as a religion in order to understand their culture, especially, when

day winter festival of lights, Celebrated with lightings and more. The Greeks tried to take over but failed because of the Jews stopped them. They eat fried foods to celebrate the Holy oil. Kids like to play a game with a top with letters on it. Hanukkah is celebrated because of what happened in the past when the Syrian-Greeks wanted to rule the Jews.

Statement was translated to mean that when Christians were forced with the question of whether gentiles Christians should still practice the special Jewish food (kosher) laws or could Gentiles eat what

Jews were charged with killing Christian children to use their blood for making unleavened bread (matzah) for Passover. Blood libels peppered Europe throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jews were accused during the thirteen through sixteenth centuries of desecrating the Host, the blessed bread distributed during the Eucharist.”