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Passover
Passover is a Jewish holiday commemorating their exodus from Egypt as cited in the Old Testament. This category is about the conceptual significance of Passover which is central to the understanding of Judaism.
937 Questions
When is last day of Passover 2010?
Monday, April 5, for citizens of Israel.
Tuesday, April 6, for everyone else.
Which toothpaste is Kosher for Passover?
Adwe Laboratories toothpastes.
Answer:
A lot of toothpastes. Just check the label for the appropriate mark of Passover kashrut.
No, you just can't eat anything with bread. So anything with yeast in it that rises. You do this until the next week at sundown. So Passover starts on Saturday at sundown, so from Saturday to next saturday, you can't east rising bread. Hope that helps. :)
Is passover dedicated to a goddess?
No. Judaism worships One God, creator of the universe. There are no gods and goddesses in Judaism. See also the Related Links.
Is there a name of the meal with bitter herbs?
A Seder of which eating bitter herbs is just a small part.
It has to be labeled as kosher for Passover with reliable supervision. If it has such a labeling, it may be used only by non-Ashkenazim (Sephardim, Mizrahi). It does contain soy, but has no gluten.
Why did God ask Moses to kill a year old lamb for Passover?
God ordered this so that He could identify which houses had Jews in them so that they would not be affected by the Plague of the Firstborn. See the Bible Verses below discussing this.
Selected verses from Exodus Chapter 12. The removed verses are irrelevant to this question. All translations are NIV.
3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
7Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
12“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord
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13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
Why does Elijah play a significant symbolic role in the passover seder?
Eliyahu doesn't play a significant role in the seder. The tradition is to have a glass of wine ready for him in case he shows up. One of the prophecies of hamoshiach is that Eliyahu will return to earth to let us know that hamoshiach has arrived.
What do Jews eat at the Passover?
During the Passover Seder meal, certain traditional foods are eaten in addition to the matzah: bitter herbs, parsley,wine and haroset (see below). Salt water, a roasted egg, and a bit of roasted meat are also on the table.
During all the days of Passover, matzah (unleavened bread) is eaten; while leavened foods such as bread, cake, cookies, cereal and pasta are forbidden. Special prayers are added in the synagogue services, and the Torah is read each day.
Here is the symbolism of the items on the Seder plate:
The bitter herbs (maror) symbolize the harsh slavery which the Israelites suffered in Egypt. Horseradish and/or romaine lettuce are traditionally used for maror.
Charoset - A sweet mixture representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the storehouses of Egypt. In Ashkenazi Jewish homes, charoset is traditionally made from chopped nuts, grated apples, cinnamon, and sweet red wine.
Karpas - A vegetable other than bitter herbs, traditionally parsley, which is dipped into salt water at the beginning of the Seder. The dipping of a simple herb into salt water (which represents tears) recalls the pain felt by the Israelite slaves in Egypt.
Beitzah - A hard-boiled egg, symbolizing the korban chagigah (festival sacrifice) that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night. Although both the Pesach sacrifice and the chagigah were meat-offerings, the chagigah is commemorated by an egg, a symbol of mourning.
Z'roa - A roasted lamb or goat shank-bone, chicken wing, or chicken neck; symbolizing the korban Pesach (Pesach sacrifice), which was a lamb that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem, then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.
Pesach (Passover) is important to us since in it we relive the Exodus from Egypt and our birth as a nation, both of which were preparations for receiving the Torah from God.
The highlight of Passover is the Seder meal. This meal is of great importance in Judaism. It is a 3325-year old continuoustradition that began on the night of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exodus chapter 12), and is fully detailed in our ancient Oral Traditions (Talmud, chapter 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, observe 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.
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Does the seder plate have a statement on it?
No, at most, it has labels for the different items that are placed on it and the word Pesach in Hebrew.
Why does the Seder meal have a bone of lamb and a chicken neck in it?
The Seder meal uses either a lamb bone or a turkey/chicken neck to represent the Paschal (lamb) sacrifice. The Israelites offered a lamb as a sacrifice at the first Passover. They put the blood of this lamb on their doorways as a signal for the Angel of Death to "Pass-Over" their houses and not kill their firstborn sons. All the other firstborn sons of Egypt died in the tenth and final plague. Modern Passover meals can use a chicken or turkey neck in place of the lamb bone since the Holy Temple is unavailable and they therefore want to use something dissimilar to the sacrificial lamb, yet still use a bone to remind them of the sacrifice.
Passover is a remembrance (for Jews) of the many years they were enslaved in Egypt.
Passover is recongnized in todays time as the Believers of God .
for us we can hope that God will blelss us on these days because we believed in him. Passover means (the Hebrews who believed in God were passed over by the Angel of Death) So, because of that we commemorate the days of April 15-23rd. the Eight Days that the Plagues we being unleashed by God on the People of Pharaoh
Why was Passover called Easter?
Easter is named after the goddess of fertility, Oestre, whose festival used to fall on the Spring equinox. Passover is a different holiday celebrated by a different religion and is still called its original name which is Pesach (meaning: the mouth speaks).
What are the restrictions for tourists during Passover?
I don't know about restrictions, but some Jewish organizations have Glatt Kosher Passover and other tours for the Jewish Holidays.
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Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea. His family background was from south-central Italy, so his traditions were entirely Roman, not Jewish. As governor of Judea, he had to be aware of the major Jewish festivals, because they were times of heightened tension and civil unrest in Jerusalem -- simply because of the pilgrimages to Jerusalem taken by a large fraction of the Jewish population on the festivals. He would likely have "observed" the festivals by putting his troops on heightened alert.
What is the english transliteration of zissen pesach?
zissen pesach already is an English transliteration of the Yiddish זיסן פסח
