How long does Lent last?

[MerakSpielman]

Anybody here give up all internet messageboards for lent?

Sorry... I couldn't resist.

 

[DM_Matt]

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I do have a question for any Jewish board-members who might be reading this -- When did Passover and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread become synonymous? If I remember right Passover began on Nisan 14 and the Unleavened Bread on Nisan 15.
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They were always synonymous. The holiday has 3 or 4 names. One is Pesach (Passover), another is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and another name is about Freedom, but I don't remember what it is exactly.

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

40 days to represent the 40 days days jesus fasted in the wilderness.
ken

 

[dcas]

They were always synonymous. The holiday has 3 or 4 names. One is Pesach (Passover), another is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and another name is about Freedom, but I don't remember what it is exactly.

Are you sure about that? Passover begins on Nisan 14 but the Feast of Unleavened Bread originally began on Nisan 15 (cf. Leviticus 23:6-8, Numbers 28:17).

I don't deny that Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are tied together closely and cannot be sundered, but it appears that the former feast begins before the latter.

EDIT: corrected spelling

 

[dcas]

40 days to represent the 40 days days jesus fasted in the wilderness.
ken

Indeed. In Latin Lent is known as Quadregesima, or "the forty." It also represents, mystically, the forty days and forty nights that Noah spent on the Ark and the forty years the Hebrews wandered in the desert.

In the old Catholic calendar there is a period of time before Lent known as Septuagesima ("the seventy" -- even though it's not exactly 70 days before Easter) which represents the 70 years spent in the Babylonian captivity.

 

[Enforcer]

Are you sure about that? Passover begins on Nisan 14 but the Feast of Unleavened Bread originally began on Nisan 15 (cf. Leviticus 23:6-8, Numbers 28:17).

I don't deny that Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are tied together closely and cannot be sundered, but it appears that the former feast begins before the latter.

EDIT: corrected spelling

I dunno, I went to religious school (again, I'm Jewish) from Kindergarden to until Sophomore year of high school, and never learned about two separate holidays. Maybe it only appears that way in the King James version (which is clearly not the Jewish version) of the Old Testament? I don't have any religious texts with me at school, so I don't know whether it would make a difference.

Then again, the Hebrews got the hell out of Egypt the day after the Angel of Death passed over their houses--forced to leave so quickly that their bread didn't have time to leaven. So, I could understand the one day split. But still, Pesach is a whole week.

Are there any Conservative or Orthodox Jews who could shed some light on the subject? Reform Jews usually only celebrate the first night.

 

[dcas]

I dunno, I went to religious school (again, I'm Jewish) from Kindergarden to until Sophomore year of high school, and never learned about two separate holidays. Maybe it only appears that way in the King James version (which is clearly not the Jewish version) of the Old Testament? I don't have any religious texts with me at school, so I don't know whether it would make a difference.

Oh, I don't read the KJV. I read the Revised Standard or the Douay-Rheims.

 

[Angcuru]

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[Joseph Elric Smith]

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Unless you are justing being rude for no reason and trying to close this tread down why don't; you spend less time telling us how you feel about religion.
Ken

 

[Samnell]

Hmmm, never used the report post to moderator link before.