Episode 372: Elijah is Coming to the Passover Seder...But Who is He? - Daniel Matt
Judaism Unbound
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The Importance of Elijah
"I am going to have a very low humility moment and give my not scholarly take on my theory that has very little evidence or basis for it other than my intuition about why Elijah has become so important," he says. "We at Hovdala Services, when we are separating Shabbat from the rest of the week, we want to remind ourselves that we are part of a really old tradition." The fact that Enoch is pre-Jewish reflects what Jews are trying to do with their stories: find an antecedent in the past.
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