“Passover with Dennis Prager”

I hope that he and “Prager University” won’t mind my stealing the image above and the text below, but I thought that some of my readers might be interested in watching this tonight (Wednesday night) or even in joining in.  I myself have led several Passover Seders for family and friends and ward members over the years, and I find considerable meaning in it.  I wouldn’t be terribly upset if it became something of a common practice for Christians to celebrate Passover.  Of course, I’m a believing Latter-day Saint and Dennis Prager is a committed Jew, so we see the Passover and its rituals a little bit differently, but not altogether incompatibly.  For me, Passover is a great scriptural teaching device, not only for the story of Moses and the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt but — and this is where Mr. Prager and I would part company — for the narrative of Easter, the Atonement, and the Resurrection of Jesus.  We would both agree, though, that Passover is a rich story of divine liberation from bondage.

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On a very different note, this story is worth noting, and it might be of especial value for the xenophobes and nativists and anti-Semites and Holocaust-deniers who have been inexplicably writing to me today.  (It’s not even Adolf Hitler’s birthday yet — that comes on 20 April, and 30 April is the anniversary of his death; Franklin Roosevelt died on 12 April 1945 — so I’m not at all sure why they’ve been so active today of all days.  Is there some other anniversary that I’m missing?)  Anyway, is there a pattern here?  Should anti-immigrationists perhaps appreciate the sacrifice being made?

“Eight U.K. Doctors Died From Coronavirus. All Were Immigrants.”