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Jewish Passover Seder returns to Idaho Falls with visiting ‘Roving Rabbis’
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IDAHO FALLS – A Jewish tradition dating back to Biblical times is returning to eastern Idaho.
Chabad-Lubavitch of Idaho, a Boise-based Jewish outreach organization, is hosting Passover Seder, a festive ritual meal celebrating the Jewish people’s exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt, as told in the Bible.
Rabbis Yisroel Gutnick and Eli Salek from New York, a pair of young Chabad rabbinical students colloquially known as Roving Rabbis, will lead the Passover Seder event with the community on April 1 at the Shilo Inn’s Snake River Event Center. They will be in Idaho Falls beginning March 29 to interact with Jews in eastern Idaho and provide religious instruction.
In a conversation with EastIdahoNews.com, Rabbi Gutnick explains that Passover Seder dates back more than 3,000 years ago.
“The Jews were enslaved in Egypt for about 200 years. It was a very difficult period. Every Passover, we celebrate the redemption of the Jewish people and how God miraculously sent the 10 plagues and a messenger, Moses, to take us across the Red Sea and to receive the Torah in the Sinai Desert and bring us to the land of Israel,” Gutnick says.
According to Jewish belief, Abraham was the first Jew. The faith continued through his son, Isaac, and grandson, Jacob.
“That was the birth of the Jewish people. From there, the Jews came down into Egypt from Israel,” Gutnick explains.
The Passover, according to Exodus 12, is held on the tenth of the month, which Salek says is the Hebrew month of Nisan, which typically happens in March or April.
“It coincides with April 1 this year,” Salek says.
It traditionally kicks off an 8-day celebration, but the community event will only last one night. Salek says they will likely have a second one for members of the Jewish community.
WATCH OUR INTERVIEW WITH THE ROVING RABBIS IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.
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