Meditations

Open Line program on 19 April 2025 Hour 1 @12:45

Reflection on the significance of the shank bone on the Passover Seder by Larry Feldman and Dr Michael Rydelnik:

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=641094&hour=1

Summary of reflection:

There are many different elements on the Seder. Dr Michael Rydelnik personally finds that the most significant element on the Seder is the shank bone of the lamb. Dr Michael Redelnik comes from a tradition in his family where they never ate lamb. Since the destruction of the Jewish temple, many Jewish people don’t eat lamb at Passover. The Passover lamb is recorded in the commands in Exodus 12 and Deuteronomy 16 where Moses tell the Jewish people on certain days of the month, they should take the lamb and they should sacrifice it and they should eat the whole lamb. For Mr Larry Feldman, his family will go to the butcher and buy a shank bone and his father will have that on their plate and his father will hold that on their plate and he will say that they don’t have the lamb today. “We don’t have the sacrifice anymore”. All we have of the ancient sacrifice is the shank bone. Symbolically, the shank bone symbolically represents the Lamb that was slain at Passover. So the shank bone represents the Messiah that is yet to come. John the baptist when baptizing Jesus says: “Behold the lamb of God takes away the sins of the world”. Dr Michael Rydelnik says just as the angel of death pass over the firstborn of those households who has the blood of the lamb on their doorpost, so when we apply the blood of our Messiah on the doorpost of our heart, Jesus passes over judgement over us.