Growing up in church, I associated the word Passover with two things: The part of the worship service liturgy that led up to Communion; and the movie The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, that was on TV every Easter weekend. I knew nothing of the Jewish celebration of Passover.
Then I was invited to a Seder meal—the initial celebration of the eight-day Jewish feast (holiday) of Passover. In the retelling of the Passover story, Jewish families affirm to one another how God used Moses…