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It's almost Passover and Jews around the world are preparing for the holiday. According to one recent study, more than 80 percent of Jews have attended a Passover Seder. However, as Jews are preparing for Passover, so are Hebrew Christians worldwide. Passover is a time, according to Rabbi Michael Skobac, educational director of the Toronto branch of Jews for Judaism, that missionaries take advantage to have greater interaction with Jewish people.

Rabbi Skobac offered the following analogy: The American government is always concerned about possible terrorists. But, on certain days, the anniversary of 9/11 for example, the government might be a little more cautious. Proselytizing of Jews takes place every day of the year, but on Passover they step it up.

Rabbi Skobac spoke with the Baltimore/Washington branch of Jews for Judaism:
 
Jews for Judaism: How do Hebrew Christians put Yeshua [Jesus] into the Seder?

Rabbi Skobac: First, the Christians basically have Yeshua becoming the embodiment of the Pascal lamb. ... Second, they find symbolism in the Seder service and point to it as the trinity. For example, they look at the Seder table with the three matzos and say that is symbolic of the trinity.

Some missionaries tie that Passover is the time of our freedom - we were freed from slavery - to their concept that through Yeshua one can be free of his sins.
 
Do these comparisons hold up?

Let's take the Pascal lamb. In Egypt, the Passover lamb we sacrificed really was the God of the Egyptians; part of the process of leaving Egypt was to separate ourselves from Egyptian idolatry ... and one of the chief idolaters in Egypt was worship of the lamb. As we prepared to become an independent people, we took the Egyptian idol and killed it.

It's very ironic, the Christian line of thought, if you think about that in the Torah the Pascal lamb is a sign of our rejection of the ideology of the non-Jews and here they try to make Yeshua the Pascal lamb.

There's also another question that can be raised: Is Yeshua a literal or figurative sacrifice? Yeshua is supposed to be the Pascal lamb, but Yeshua does not fulfill any of the Biblical criterion [less than one-year-old, a kosher animal, no blemish, etc.] for sacrifices.
 
How can Jews combat this missionary rhetoric?

We need to encourage more and more Jewish people to become knowledgeable about the basic ideas of Judaism. If one understands the reality of Judaism, he understands there is no correspondence to the Christian bible in the Seder.