Christians should celebrate passover because Passover is all about miracles and remembering the miracles that God has perfomed to release us from our captivity.

One of the symbols of Passover is Matzah - unleavened bread. It is ceremonially ‘broken’ to symbolize the state of humanity void of God.

Why is there so much broken in this world? Why did the Cosmic Designer make a world where hearts break, lives shatter, beauty crumbles?

A whole vessel can contain its measure, but a broken one can hold the Infinite. Matzah is called the poor man’s bread. He is low and broken. And it is this brokenness that allows him to open his soul and escape his Egypt.
As long as we feel whole, there is no room left for us to grow. It is when we realize we are but a fragment, that we need the others around us, that so much of us is missing — that is when miracles begin.

Jesus taught us that to live we must die to self, we must be broken to become whole. At the last supper Yeshua (Jesus) the Jew broke the Matzah after the Pesach (Passover) meal and raised the third cup of wine and said this is my body that will be broken for you.. What better way to celebrate his resurection than to break the bread like he did ?

Another symbol of Passover is Maror - Bitter Herbs; it represents the bitterness and oppression of this world that is always present. It is eaten with a little Charoset, a combination of fruits and nuts that is sweet.
What’s so great about the bitterness? Why do we want to remember that?

Actually, our bitterness in Egypt was/is the key to our redemption. We never got used to Egypt. We never felt we belonged there. We never said, “They are the masters and we are the slaves and that’s the way it is. It always remained something we felt bitter about, something that was unjust and needed to change.
If it had not been that way, we probably would never have left. In fact, tradition tells us that 80% of the Jews said, This is our land. How can we leave it? And they stayed and died there. But as for the rest of us, when Moses came and told us we were going to leave, we believed him. It was our bitterness that had preserved our faith.

Everyone has his Egypt. You’ve got to know who you are and what are your limitations. But heaven forbid that you make peace with them. The soul within you knows no limits.
This is the sweetness we apply to the bitter herb: Bitterness alone, without any direction, is self-destructive. Inject some life and optimism into it, and it becomes the springboard to freedom.

God came to earth as Yeshua Ha’meshiach (Jesus the Messiah) to release us forever from captivity; a captivity of our flesh, by giving us the Holy Spirit by which we can escape the bonds of our slavery. These bonds are every bit as real as the ball and chains attached to a slave and they hold us back from loving one another and growing close to our Father God.

If you do not know the Jewish Messiah as the Jew he was, you only have half the story. Jews need Christians to reveal the meaning of what is hidden in the Torah and Christians need Jews to show them what is concealed within the Torah to be revealed.

Posted by: David Rothman, a Messianic Jew