Who do modern Jews not eat lamb at Passover, as prescribed in the book of Exodus 12?

Photo by Terry Harman, 2008 “Who Slays the Passover Lamb” One of the questions I often receive on my YouTube channel is about who slaughtered the Passover lamb at the Temple: the priest or the people? The answer is not as clear-cut as we would expect. In short, both lay persons and priests prepared the Passover offering. As we have seen in a former post (1) today without the Temple, most Jews do not eat Lamb during Passover. While most people would assume that it was the prie

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