Dr. Randy Weiss • A Passover Backstory
There’s moreto Passoverthan most of us were ever taught.
A Passover Backstory takes you from Moses and the Exodus through the biblical festival, the Seder, Jewish history, Jesus, and the Last Supper—then gives you Randy’s family Haggadah so you can experience Passover around your own table.
Why this book?
You may know the Exodus. You may know Communion. The missing piece is the bridge.
Randy’s book walks that bridge in order. It begins with the world of Moses, follows the Passover story and Jewish tradition, then lets the Last Supper sit back inside the Passover setting where it happened.
Two books in one
First understand it. Then do it.
A Passover Backstory
The history, overlooked people, questions, Jewish context, humor, and biblical connections that make Passover—and the Last Supper—come into focus.
Do It Yourself Passover
Randy’s family Haggadah: the actual order, blessings, readings, symbols, roles, four cups, Afikomen, Elijah, and Messianic conclusion needed to lead a Seder.
What the backstory uncovers
Four doors into a story most Christians have only seen in pieces.
Before there was a Last Supper, there was an Exodus.
The book spends real time with Moses, the women who preserved his life, Pharaoh, the plagues, deliverance, and the birth of Israel as a nation.
Passover has heroes people rarely talk about.
Randy restores Moses to the conversation and highlights the courageous women of Exodus—including Jochebed, Miriam, Shiphrah, Puah, and Pharaoh’s daughter.
The Last Supper changes when you stop treating it like a generic dinner.
Jesus was an observant Jew. The matzah, wine, blessings, Scripture, and Passover setting all matter to the story Christians remember through Communion.
The book eventually hands the experience to you.
Instead of ending with information, it gives you the family Haggadah Randy created so the story can be told again around your own table.
One picture. One obvious problem.
What is wrong with the Last Supper?
Randy uses one of the book’s funniest visual hooks to make a serious point: when the Jewish setting disappears, the story starts to change with it.
Passover is the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Jesus would have been eating matzah, not ordinary leavened rolls. It is a small detail that opens a much larger conversation about the Jewish world of Jesus.
Get this book. It will open up your faith in a completely new way.
Phil Cooke, Ph.D. • Book endorsementWhat you leave with
Not trivia. A framework.
- A clearer picture of Passover and the Exodus.
- A stronger understanding of the Jewish roots of Christianity.
- Context for the Last Supper, matzah, wine, and Communion.
- A family-centered way to pass the story from generation to generation.
- A complete Haggadah for actually hosting a Seder.
Lador vador — generation to generation
The second half is the Haggadah Randy’s family actually uses.
It is designed to help people participate instead of simply watch. English, Hebrew, transliteration, Leader / Reader / All roles, explanations, humor, and the full ordered Seder are built in.
Start with the backstory
Understand the table before you sit down at it.
Read the story, follow the connections, then use the Haggadah to bring Passover into your own home.