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Urchatz – Ceremonial Hand Washing Step: 3

Locate the
wash basin(s)
and distribute
the hand towels
at this time...

Leader: Let’s continue, friends. The third activity of our Passover Seder is to wash our hands
before we eat some of the ceremonial foods at the table. Note, however, that the customary
blessing recited for hand washing (netilat yadayim) is deliberately not be recited at this time...

Hand Washing Procedure

Each person will take a turn pouring water from a The Urchatz
ceremony
special vessel over the hands of the person next to recalls the laws
him or her. It is customary to pour some water over of ritual
impurity
the right hand three times, and then over the left
(tumah) and
hand three times. Sometimes a child will carry a purity
(taharah).
towel to each person to dry the hands after
performing the ritual.

Kadosh Yisrael
Yeshua and Urchatz

It is likely that Yeshua washed His disciples feet during this step of the seder he had with
the disciples. Imagine the disciples passing the urchatz pan from person to person for the
ritual cleansing of hands. Then,

Reader 1: “Yeshua laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his
waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe
them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to
him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Yeshua answered him, “What I am doing you do not
understand now, but afterward you will understand.”

Reader 2: Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Yeshua answered him, “If I do
not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only
but also my hands and my head!” Yeshua said to him, “The one who has bathed does not
need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every
one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are
clean.” When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place,
he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?” (John 13:4-12)

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