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Passover

Christiana Murray

Jewish

Ritual

Overview

Passover, also called Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, which occurs on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, the first month of Aviv, or spring.

Steps and features of the Passover ritual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzsuL9U1a_k&ab_channel=BimBam

Features of Ritual

Symbols

Symbols

dipping the parsley -

- The Parsley is a symbol of the way God cared for the Jews when they were travelling in the desert.

- Dipping it in salt water is meant to remind the Jews of the tears they shed whilst they were slaves

The Matzah-

- symbolic of the haste with which the children of Israel left Egypt

Bitter Herbs-

- symbolic of the bitterness of the forced labour of the Israelites

bone -

- It is a reminder of the lamb which was killed so its blood could be put on the doorposts.

Participants

Families and adherants to Judaism are inolved in the holiday, as if generally is observed as a family occasion. Passover is appealed to insiders more so than outsiders as they can commemorate the holiday and eat the passover. Outsider may observe but not participate.

Participants

Sacred text

Sacred Texts

The first book of the Torah narrates the Book of Exodus. Passover, Hebrew Pesa or Pesach, in Judaism, holiday commemorating the Hebrews' liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus. From the rescue of the infant Moses from the Nile, to the scene of Moses meeting God in the burning bush, Moses and Aaron confronting Pharaoh, the miracles of the plagues visited by God upon Egypt, the Passover, the escape from Egypt, the parting of the sea. All of which is commemorated and celebrated through the passover

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