{"id":8151,"date":"2016-02-20T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2016-03-06T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:50:12","slug":"is-your-table-an-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/is-your-table-an-altar\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your table an altar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Luke 24:30, <i>He sat at the table. <\/i><\/b>(See also vv. 41\u201343; John 21:12\u201313). In Bible times, when a covenant of friendship had been broken, as had occurred when the disciples forsook Yeshua prior to his apprehension, the broken relationship would be restored by eating together. After his resurrection, Yeshua had at least three meals with his disciples in order to renew loving covenantal relationship with them (<i>Manners and Customs<\/i>, pp. 78\u201379).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/is-your-table-an-altar\/young-hispanic-family-saying-prayers-before-meal-at-home\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8152\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dollarphotoclub_84427526-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Young Hispanic Family Saying Prayers Before Meal At Home\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dollarphotoclub_84427526-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dollarphotoclub_84427526-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dollarphotoclub_84427526-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dollarphotoclub_84427526-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Hebraic thought, one\u2019s table is a sort of sacred altar where familial and spiritual communion occurs. You don\u2019t just break bread with anyone\u2014only your close friends. Additionally, when a prayer of thanksgiving is made over a meal, YHVH\u2019s Presence is invoked making the meal a sort of spiritual act where heaven and earth commune together.<\/p>\n<p>This is one reason why the Passover <i>seder<\/i> meal is of such serious significance. Only those of one\u2019s spiritual family are to gather together at the <i>seder<\/i> where together they meet with Elohim. Furthermore, this is why Paul states in 1 Cor 5:9\u201311,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 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