Living life with steps of faith

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On the eve of Passover they hanged Yeshu (of Nazareth) and the herald wentbefore him for forty days saying (Yeshu of Nazareth) is going to be stonedin that he hath practiced sorcery and beguiled and led astray Israel. Leteveryone knowing aught in his defense come and plead for him. But they foundnaught in his defense and hanged him on the eve of Passover. The Babylonian Talmud, transl. by I. Epstein (London: Soncino, 1935), vol. III, Sanhedrin 43a

Wow! I just made a huge connection! In Jewish culture, when someone dies, all of the family who is gathered tears their garment as a sign of grief. When Jesus died, the curtain in the Temple tore--God expressed his grief as one present at his son's death by tearing his own garment!