On the night of Christ's betrayal and arrest, He and the disciples had not long before finished celebrating the Passover meal at which the sacrament of Holy Communion was instituted by Christ himself.

3 days! but it really was not considered a holiday until president Lincon declared it a holiday in 1863 and he was the first one to do this.

the slaves built the pyramids and the palaces where the pharos lived.

The purpose of this is to open the door for Elijah, a prophet who is given a cup of wine at the table as well.

There is no record of such a custom in Jewish sources, or for that matter anywhere outside the NT story regarding Barabbas and Jesus.. Of course, it IS possible that the Romans had such a custom (especially in the colonies) before a major pilgrimage holiday such as Passover to sow good will and restrain the crowds. As Passover is the 'Festival of Freedom', to use one rabbinic name for it, this is not an outlandish conjecture, but neither Josephus nor the Talmud cite such a custom.

Bitter herbs.

The near-consensus of scholars is that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible, in which case there never really was a great Israelite leader called Moses. Thus, Moses had no direct impact on history, but the legendary story of Moses certainly did.

Because the story of Moses is central to the Old Testament, it is central to the subsequent development of Judaism. And without a strong belief in a glorious past and their divine right to the land of the Canaanites, the Jews might not have survived the Babylonian Exile as a coherent group determined to restore what they saw as their birthright. The second-century-BCE Maccabean conquests of Idumea and Galilee resulted in the forcible conversion to Judaism of the local populations, arguably to restore the 'Promised Land' to Jewish ownership even if those Jews were descendants of Edomites and Aramaeans.

According to traditional chronology, the first Passover was in 1312 BCE.

Passover is not a gift giving holiday.

If the question is regarding what to bring your hostess during Pesach (Passover), appropriate gifts are kosher le pesach wine, chocolates, dried fruits and nuts. There are also really nice tea gift boxes and things like that.

I assume that you mean children gifts; educational games, such as QuestZion or Kosherland are mostly recommended by Jewish parents and educators. If you are looking for more adult-like gifts, then kosher wine, Seder plates, or some products of Israel would be very appropriate.

The egg - which is usually roasted and called the beitzah, symbolises the korban chagigah festival sacrifice which was made in the Beit HaMikdash (Temple in Jerusalem) and eaten as part of the seder meal. The ovoid shape, similar to a circle, is often said to represent the belief that the Temple will in time be reconstructed following its destruction in ancient times - that is, it will "come full circle."

During Passover, observant Jews do not eat chametz - that is, any food produced in a way in which one of the Five Grains (wheat, oats, rye, barley or spelt) come into contact with water for more than 18 minutes. Since pasta falls into this category (along with most types of noodles, couscous, bread except for Passover matzah), it is not eaten during the festival.

There is kosher for Pesach pasta available these days, primarily made from potato starch.

The Passover Hagaddah (or Story) states that "Whoever does not say these three things has not fulfilled his obligation: Pesach, Matzah, Maror." Pesach is the pascal lamb offering that is no longer brought as the Temple in Jerusalem no longer stands. In the days of the Temple, thousands of lambs were slaughtered on the eve of Passover to be eaten that night along with the matzah and the maror, the bitter herb (traditionally, romaine lettuce or horseraddish). Today we eat only the matzah and maror.

For the first Passover in Egypt, HaShem instructed the Israelites to slaughter lambs and paint their door posts with the blood. They were to then roast the meat and eat it that night.

The significance of this was that by slaughtering lambs, the Israelites were performing an act that was an outright rejection of the Egyptian Gods. This is because lambs were one of the animals worshiped by the Egyptians. By marking their doorposts with the lambs' blood, they were showing their acceptance of HaShem.

After the Exodus, lambs were slaughtered, roasted, and eaten by families as offerings of thanks to HaShem every Passover. Today, the majority of Ashkenazi Jews do not eat lamb during Passover as the Temple is not standing. Most other Jewish groups do eat lamb though.

Passover, known to Jews as Pesach, is made a mandatory annual event in the Bible (Leviticus 23:5) and as such was established in ancient times. Although it is impossible to put a precise date on the Exodus, from which the holiday originates, it seems evident that it was already an honoured and ancient tradition by the time that the Torah was written down, possibly between 538-334 BCE (BC).

Bible scholars, who have estimated the dates of various events by looking at the lifespans of biblical characters, place the date of the Exodus to around 1447 BCE. However, there is no physical evidence, and since it is generally agreed nowadays that Old Testament figures (such as Methuselah, 969 years) did not live for as long as the texts claim there are various conflicting modern attempts at dating the Hebrews' escape from slavery in Egypt. The so-called Late Exodus theory dates the event to between 1250-1200 BCE, while Early Exodus proponents claim 1440 BCE. Some Early Exodus believers also argue that there were in fact two Exoduses: the first, in 1628 BCE, was in response to a volcanic eruption in Minoa which is thought to have caused most of the biblical Plagues. The second is then said to have taken place in 1450 BCE.

If one of these dates is correct, we can assume that Pesach was established as an annual festival either that same year or very soon thereafter.

You're thinking of Passover or Pesach (פסח), but this holiday was not created from the plagues by Moses.
The Ancient Hebrews created this holiday to commemorate their freedom and the Exodus from Egypt. The Plagues are only a small part of the story.

The exodus from Egypt.

The highlight of Passover is the Seder meal, called the Passover (Pesach) Seder, which is of great importance in Judaism. It is a 3325-year old continuous tradition that began on the night of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exodus chapter 12), and is fully detailed in our ancient Oral Traditions (Talmud, perek Arvei Pesachim).

The Seder meal is one of those occasions, like Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, that Jews all over the world, Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike, have in common. During the Seder, we keep the essential mitzva and customs of handing Jewish traditions down to the next generation, with the traditional Seder foods and the ceremony of reading the Passover Haggadah which retells the events of the Exodus.

It is possible to get tahini that is hechshered kosher l'Pesach. However, these products are kitniyot so the majority of Ashkenazi Jews would not eat it.

This is a matter of individual outlook and opinion; you could probably get 10 different answers from 10 different people. Here's a suggested answer from this responder: From the observance of Pesach (Passover), Jews gain: -- an appreciation of freedom in a very strict sense ... freedom directed to a purpose, not simply to enjoy liberty but to make liberty an instrument of purpose; as Paul Harvey used to say, "not free to do as you want, but free to do as you ought", which is the service to the Master of the Universe, and exemplifying his meaning and message to the nations of the earth; -- an inspiration to look for the Deity not among themselves or among the objects of nature or of legend, but to the Power which permeates, yet transcends, all of creation; this idea is driven home first by the fact that the Pesach commemoration and celebration virtually ignore Moses. -- an awareness that worship consists not only of prayer but equally of study and learning, which are emphasized from the first moment of the holiday; -- an awareness of the central, vital importance of the children to the survival of the Jewish lessons and way of life; -- a sense of humility and gratitude toward the infinite Power that saw fit not only to teach Pharaoh and his people a lesson in return for their treatment of the Jews, but also to rescue the Jews in the process, and to give them the resources and set them on a new life course of their own.

On the Fifteenth of Nissan.