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*according to the ‘hebrew calendar’, ‘passover’ is held from 15 – 21 in the month of “nisan”*
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(‘march’ or ‘april’ in the ‘gregorian calendar’)
(celebrates the ‘ancient israelites’ escaping from ‘slavery’ in ‘egypt’)
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or pesach (/ˈpɛsɑːx, ˈpeɪsɑːx/;
from hebrew פֶּסַח pesah, pesakh),
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*”passover” is an important + biblically-derived ‘jewish holiday’*
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(‘jews’ celebrate ‘passover’ as a commemoration of their ‘liberation’ by ‘god’ from ‘slavery’ in ‘ancient egypt’ and their ‘freedom’ as a ‘nation’ under the leadership of ‘moses’)
(it commemorates the story of the ‘exodus’ as described in the ‘hebrew bible’, especially in the ‘book of exodus’, in which the ‘israelites’ were freed from ‘slavery’ in ‘egypt’)
(according to ‘standard biblical chronology’, this event would have taken place at about ‘1300 BCE’ (‘AM 2450’))
(“passover” is a ‘spring festival’ which during the existence of the ‘temple’ in ‘jerusalem’ was connected to the offering of the “first-fruits of the barley”, ‘barley’ being the first ‘grain’ to ‘ripen’ and to be ‘harvested’ in the “land of israel”)
(“passover” commences on the ’15th’ of the hebrew month of ‘nisan’ and lasts for either 7 days (in ‘israel’ and for ‘reform jews’ and other ‘progressive jews’ around the world who adhere to the ‘biblical commandment’) or 8 days for ‘orthodox’, ‘hasidic’, and most ‘conservative jews’ (in the ‘diaspora’))
(in ‘judaism’, a ‘day’ commences at ‘dusk’ and lasts until the following ‘dusk’, thus the first day of ‘passover’ only begins after dusk of the ’14th’ of ‘nisan’ and ends at ‘dusk’ of the ’15th day’ of the month of ‘nisan’)
(the rituals unique to the ‘passover celebrations’ commence with the ‘passover seder’ when the ’15th’ of ‘nisan’ has begun)
(in the ‘northern hemisphere’, ‘passover’ takes place in ‘spring’ as the ‘torah’ prescribes it: “in the month of [the] spring” (בחדש האביב ‘exodus 23:15’))
(it is one of the most widely observed ‘jewish holidays’)
(in the narrative of the ‘exodus’, the ‘bible’ tells that ‘god’ helped the ‘children of israel’ escape from their ‘slavery’ in ‘egypt’ by inflicting ’10 plagues’ upon the ‘ancient egyptians’ before the ‘pharaoh’ would release his ‘israelite slaves’; the 10th and worst of the plagues was the death of the ‘egyptian first-born’)
(the ‘israelites’ were instructed to mark the ‘doorposts’ of their ‘homes’ with the ‘blood’ of a ‘slaughtered spring lamb’ and, upon seeing this, the ‘spirit’ of the ‘lord’ knew to pass over the ‘first-born’ in these homes, hence the english name of the ‘holiday’)
(when the ‘pharaoh’ freed the ‘israelites’, it is said that they left in such a hurry that they could not wait for ‘bread dough’ to ‘rise’ (aka ‘leaven’))
(in commemoration, for the duration of ‘passover’ no ‘leavened bread’ is eaten, for which reason ‘passover’ was called the feast of ‘unleavened bread’ in the ‘torah’ or ‘old testament’)
(thus matzo (‘flat unleavened bread’) is eaten during ‘passover’ and it is a ‘tradition’ of the ‘holiday’)
(historically, together with ‘shavuot’ (aka “entecost”) and ‘sukkot’ (aka “tabernacles”), ‘passover’ is 1 of the ‘3 pilgrimage festivals’ (shalosh regalim) during which the entire population of the ‘kingdom of judah’ made a ‘pilgrimage’ to the ‘temple’ in ‘jerusalem’)
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(‘samaritans’ still make this pilgrimage to ‘mount gerizim’, but only ‘men’ participate in ‘public worship’)
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