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Episode 372: Elijah is Coming to the Passover Seder...But Who is He? - Daniel Matt

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Elijah the Prophet at the Passover Seder

Daniel Matt: Most Jews have heard of Elijah and many Christians and Muslims, but very few people know about Elijah in the Bible. He says that what's interesting about Elijah is that he's so familiar, but he's so mysterious. And even the Seder, I mean, why is he at the Seder? Everybody knows that he's part of the Seder; probably because Passover celebrates redemption. Daniel Matt: You don't find anywhere in the Talmud, nowhere in rabbinic literature is Elijah associated with Passover, with the Seder.

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