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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dr Harry Brown wrote: > There is no connection between Passover (The exodus of the Jews from Egypt) and Easter the Resurrection of Jesus, the Jews don't believe in Jesus. However some of the symbolism of Easter may come from Passover (Pesach called by the Jews) and there is some thought that the last supper was in fact one of the Passover meals (the seder) but not everyone accepts that as fact > > The only obvious connection is that often Passover and Easter co-incide but not this year Wrong. Easter as a Christian celebration is directly building on Jewish Pessach - - temporaly and in terms of religious content - quite irrespective of whether Jews accept the Christian angle or not, it is there. Peter > Hope that helps > > Harry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dr Peter von Kaehne > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:50 PM > Subject: Re: [isug_committee] Date of Easter > > > Joel Coward wrote: >> Dr Gillian Braunold wrote: >>> The Jewish lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar coincide every 19 >>> years >>> on a cycle. > >> This is getting harder than working out missed pill rules along with a >> change of oestrogen content. > > I think the link between passover and easter has been broken by our > various calender reforms. > > As such the link is supposed to be there. > > Peter ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail ********************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5aUXGZ/1MokWdcsRAiktAKDVnZvIgsKqkY0nOp9HDTQNyKxrdQCgl81O GBmxOVmrmXg1h1h3jFOBGKo= =6qI/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----