Torah Tuesday - Exodus

[@Dzhennifer]

Great reminder to get rid of the leaven of yesterday's sin and enter the Sabbath day of rest focused on what God has done in setting us free from slavery. Thank you Carmen for another great Torah Tuesday!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks for watching, as always!

[@qcbtbx]

What do we have here? A day early! Rehearsing the redemptive events and narrative! Love it!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it! We accidentally scheduled this one early.

[@jamesleicht7621]

Thanks for reminding us the importance of the Sabbath........enjoy 😊

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Our pleasure!

[@SimmerdownTX]

Thank you, Dr. Imes.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

My pleasure!

[@alfonsochincaro2]

May God bless you a lot. It's a great Monday for a Torah Tuesday!

[@alfonsochincaro2]

The King is coming.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks, Alfonso!

[@chg1107]

Christmas came early 😊🎉❤

[@tony.biondi]

Tuesday came early!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Oops! Glad you are happy about it!

[@cslewis9696]

Sarna's comment on the cutting off from ones people seems similar to Steffan Mathias' conclusions in Paternity, Progeny, and Perpetuating you are cut off from social remembrance after death and are no longer considered part of the community. Thanks for another great Torah Tuesday!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Yes, that does sound like a similar concept!

[@blakewidmer]

Oooh. a Monday treat...are we gonna get a bonus "two for Tuesday" tomorrow? I really appreciated the "leaving the leavened behind" as a teaching principle for taking nothing of Egypt with you, a clean break. I think that can be helpful in discipleship conversations.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Oops! We posted this a day early!! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Liminalplace1]

Very helpful explanation about throwing out the yeast, eating all.. reminds me of mana being given daily. Have to admit ive never made sour dough.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

I don't really care for sourdough, so I haven't made it either! But I have made "friendship bread" which is a quick-bread with a similar concept of a fermented starter.

[@Liminalplace1]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD youve given me a cooking project this week. It will be a good way to remember)))

[@brandonablack]

I appreciate your discussion of being "cut off". For us so far removed it is difficult to know exactly how they understood it and practiced it. As far as exclusion from the covenantal blessings, I couldn't remember if you discussed it in a previous video, but I wondered if you consider the Pesach to be a covenantal meal? Thanks also for mentioning the structure and composition. I love seeing how intentional the authors of the Bible were in how they wrote. I think we would do well to spend more time reading the Bible as a literary work. I have a good friend (although we don't see much of each other) who was my 10th grade English teacher (many years ago!) and she loves how well the Bible was written and she incorporated it into our world literature class in public school because it really is a great literary work. You mention the setting aside of the lamb on Day 10. Yom Kippur is also on the tenth day. What do you think is the significance of these two things being on the 10th day? All of the other dates for the appointed times seem to have a clear purpose, but I've never been able to understand the 10th day, unless maybe it has something to do with the ten northern tribes of the exiled house of Israel. I was wondering where you were getting the month starting on a Sunday from, or was that just an example? Finally, @10:38, you say that the only work they can do within those seven days is prepare food, but from my reading of the text in 12:16, only the first and seventh days are sabbaths. How do you form your interpretation?

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Hi Brandon! Thanks for these great comments and questions. I don't think I've explicitly called the Passover a covenantal meal. I'll have to chew on that idea (pun intended), since it takes place before Sinai and does not seem to be directly connected to the ratification of the covenant at Sinai. I'm not exactly sure the significance of the 10th day, except that I think it would have been nearly a full moon (given that their months were lunar). I started the month on a Sunday because the Sabbath is the 7th day. Sorry for being unclear. The only days that work was not to be done was the first and last days of the festival (the Sabbath days).

[@hectorniebla81]

Thanks for your help... I need it

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@Sunwolfe]

You inadvertently sent me on a quest about ancient bread making as I wondered how difficult it was to prepare the first batch of bread after having removed all leavened dough from the household. Not too difficult it seems as EgyptIans were famed for beer brewing and fermentation. As far as my little-to-no-baking experience can make out (cookies?), a splash of fermentation-froth in the dough mix equals culinary magic. Interesting.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lyndallcave786]

In a fun coincidence, I was eating flatbread for a snack while watching this.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

That IS fun!

[@mrs.ogbuagu]

Thanks for the study. You got a LIKE and new SUB from me!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Welcome! So glad you enjoyed this!

[@ApologistInDetroit]

I think of rap music more than Dr. Seuss. But i'm sure that's cultural. The reminder of both Sabbath and reflection memorials is so needed in the church.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Yes! Rap music is a great analogy!!

[@eew8060]

Hey Dr Imes! When is your Exodus commentary coming out? And who is the publisher?

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Hi! My Exodus commentary is with Baker Academic. I'm hoping to finish writing it within 3 years, so watch for it in 4 years.

[@flematicoreformandose5046]

Leaven represents impurity, sin, that which makes us dirty before God and men. As for the Sabbath, we can rest that day, but I don't know if Dr. Imes is referring to celebrating it in the manner of the Seventh-day Adventists, or in another way.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

I don't have a strong opinion on whether Christians celebrate Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday. I personally take a Sabbath on Sunday. I think the principle of resting one day in seven is the most important part.

[@rls26101]

Challah is a lot more fun to eat than Matzah. 😁

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

FACT!

[@treasurehunter-deals9910]

I would like your thoughts on this, or thoughts of other researchers if there are any readily in your head. After the original Passover, seems to me that the commemorating of it each year should be a joyous week celebrating freedom from slavery. I've always grappled with why then did God put such a harsh abstainance on it, from leavened bread and cake, for the WHOLE week. I've never given up leavened bread and cake for a whole week, and I know if I did, I would not be in any mood to celebrate anything. I know Jewish people substitute cake with candy during Passover, but that wouldn't do it for me. Don't get me wrong; I'd be willing to do that little bit of suffering. I'm just saying I would not be celebrating; I'd be fasting.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Interesting question! I would think of it somewhat like camping. When we go tent camping, we're giving up lots of conveniences, but it's a joyous time because we're with people we love, taking a break from our usual work. Flatbread is still delicious, and it is fasting to make, which could have brought relief to the women making it (who typically spent about 6 hrs a day making bread to keep their families alive!).

[@treasurehunter-deals9910]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD Good points. Thank you!