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We are to remember & proclaim Yeshua's sacrificial death by our partaking of bread and wine.
Category: God & Yeshua
Type: Positive
Form: Explicit
Source dataset: Old Testament
Uniqueness: Not unique
Classical commandment: No
New Covenant Literal Application
Applies to Person Categories: Everyone
Literal Application: mandated
More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application
The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.
It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.
This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.
Detailed codes: GFm - Gentile female, mandated | GMm - Gentile male, mandated | JFm - Jewish female, mandated | JMm - Jewish male, mandated | KFm - K'rovat Yisrael female, mandated | KMm - K'rov Yisrael male, mandated
Bible references
Key NT Scriptures
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1 Corinthians 11:23-29
- Matthew 26:26-28
Supportive NT Scriptures
- 1 Corinthians 10:16
- John 6:32-35
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John 6:47-58
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Luke 22:14-20
- Luke 24:30
- Mark 14:22-24
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Commentary
Rabbi Michael Rudolph
Seudat HaAdon (a/k/a Shulchan HaAdon ) is known by a variety of names in English as well; "Meal of the Lord", "Table of the Lord", "The Lord's Supper", and "Holy Communion" are common. There is a mystery surrounding Seudat HaAdon because Yeshua spoke of his body and blood in present tense - i.e. "this is my body"; "this is my blood"; rather than his saying: "this represents my body"; "this represents my blood." Also, in his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul says of Yeshua: " whoever eats the Lord's bread or drinks the Lord's cup in an unworthy manner will be guilty of desecrating the body and blood of the Lord! " - again identifying the bread and wine with his body and blood in more than a symbolic way. These sayings of Yeshua have led the Roman Catholics to their doctrine of "transmutation", whereby they believe that the bread and wine taken in remembrance of Yeshua physically becomes his body and blood. While Messianic Judaism does not accept that the bread and wine of Yeshua physically transmutes, we do sense that when we take the elements of bread and wine, something of a spiritual nature occurs that is empowering and beyond mere symbolism. There is another controversy surrounding Seudat HaAdon , and that is when and how often it should be taken, and whether or not Yeshua intended it to be a sacrament as distinguished from a remembrance that occurs in the ordinary course of eating bread and drinking wine. Some say it is sacramental and should only be taken during the Passover seder meal since historically, that is the context in which Yeshua gave it to his disciples. Some say it is sacramental but can and should be taken on other occasions as well. Others say it is not sacramental, and that on every occasion in which we eat bread and drink wine we should declare it in remembrance of Yeshua. It is not my purpose here to prove or attempt to disprove any of these theories, but my own position is that Seudat HaAdon is intended as a sacrament to be taken during the Passover seder meal especially, and periodically at other times throughout the year as well. I do not believe that how often we take it is critical.
Classical commentators
This Mitzvah is not addressed by any of the Jewish classical commentators.
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