Leon Freilich, Verse Responder: Eat, Drink & Make Worship

With both Passover and Easter approaching, I’d like to point out

that over two millennia 52 great visual artists painted the Last Supper–including Leonardo, Titian and El Greco–and all got it wrong.

They depict Jesus at the First Seder sitting over a loaf of bread.
As every every Jew knows, the seder plate is filled with unleavened
bread that’s flat–matzo.

And when Jesus tells his twelve disciples, “This is my body, given
for you.  Do this in remembrance of me,” he’s offering each a piece
of matzo, as is the custom at the  seder. This transformed over the centuries into a wafer, the host, that Catholic priests at Easter place on the tongue of celebrants receiving Holy Communion.

So no matter the color or size,  the Passover and Easter symbol–of affliction to  Jews, of resurrection to Christians–is the ecumenical matzo.

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