Just a small comment here for the person who was saying that if it was wine representing Christ at Passover, one would be giving a child a watered down Christ if they mixed the wine with water.
Perhaps you were just joking...but in case you weren't aware of it here's a few notes.
The wine in Passover doesn't represent Christ. You're mixing that up with the wine used in communion.
When I drank wine as a child in temple guess what? It wasn't watered down and guess what else? I wasn't too fond of it. A child is not going to sit and drink a glass of wine. They will most likely take one tiny sip. There are a number of glasses of wine used for the event you mention, and people don't sit and drink five cups a piece or anything.
Most often what you will find in a ceremonial thingie where there's wine is that ONE cup will be passed around. I've seen a silver cup that would hold about 16 ounces of wine be passed to 50 people, and it wasn't empty at the end. If there's five cups, five will be passed around. Even five tastes of wine doesn't bring you near intoxication. You bring it to your lips until you taste it or get a tiny sip and you pass it on. Or you take a taste of your own and stop.
Or so and so can drink all five cups and dance like a nut because he thinks he's a helipcopter and his yarmulke is the propellers and that does happen in some cases but then you just call him King David and move on...
ANYHOW I just thought I'd throw that in just in case you weren't joking and really didn't know what/how wine is used in tradition.
Perhaps you were just joking...but in case you weren't aware of it here's a few notes.
The wine in Passover doesn't represent Christ. You're mixing that up with the wine used in communion.
When I drank wine as a child in temple guess what? It wasn't watered down and guess what else? I wasn't too fond of it. A child is not going to sit and drink a glass of wine. They will most likely take one tiny sip. There are a number of glasses of wine used for the event you mention, and people don't sit and drink five cups a piece or anything.
Most often what you will find in a ceremonial thingie where there's wine is that ONE cup will be passed around. I've seen a silver cup that would hold about 16 ounces of wine be passed to 50 people, and it wasn't empty at the end. If there's five cups, five will be passed around. Even five tastes of wine doesn't bring you near intoxication. You bring it to your lips until you taste it or get a tiny sip and you pass it on. Or you take a taste of your own and stop.
Or so and so can drink all five cups and dance like a nut because he thinks he's a helipcopter and his yarmulke is the propellers and that does happen in some cases but then you just call him King David and move on...
ANYHOW I just thought I'd throw that in just in case you weren't joking and really didn't know what/how wine is used in tradition.