Passover

A flat bread used in the Jewish celebration of Passover.

Every time Passover rolled around -- i.e., once a year.

There are also two other holidays at which times every man took his family to the Temple ...
Shavuot and Sukkot.

That makes a total of three times a year:

Early Spring, late Spring, and Fall.

Planting, first fruits, and harvest.

Nationhood, receiving the Torah, and enjoying blessings after repentance.

See the parallels ?

The Seder is eaten the first two nights of Passover outside of Israel, and the first night in Israel.

Matza - food of the poor

Bitter Herb - remember slavery in Egypt

Wine - Now we are free

Cement like food - remember to morter in Egypt

Egg - symbol of mourning over the second temple (as it goes round, so does our life, we are born, die, and end up in the same place

In the Hebrew calender, Passover or Pesach begins on the fifteenth of Nisan. This year (2010) it begins in the evening of March 30th.

Either March or April

Bissli Snacks have to have "Kosher for Passover" written on their labels.

As capers come packed in brine, they require a kosher for Passover certification. However, because the brine used for capers has vinegar in it, it is not possible to find brands that are kosher for Passover. If you could find fresh capers, they can be eaten.

An individual intent on observing the laws of Passover would most likely avoid any purchase of prepared food from a public source during the holiday. It's possible that in areas with exceptionally large and concentrated Jewish population, a restaurant might change itself over and become certified kosher for Passover. But this is highly unlikely, because the business opportunities would be limited to a total of only four days. To answer the question: It's almost certain that a Jewish person who goes out to eat during Passover, and cares, eats what he has packed and carried in his own brown bag.

The holes in matzah simply keep it from rising or becoming puffy. This is because the specification for Passover is that leavened and/or puffed bread is not allowed.

No processed food is kosher for Passover unless its label has a symbol of reliable Rabbinic supervision.

Except for the Seder meal (the formal meal at the arrival of Passover on the first evening), there is no rule in Judaism that requires eating matzah. But there is a rule (Exodus ch.12) that during the entire holiday, Jews are not to buy, own, cook, bake, sell, or even see in their possession, any food or drink that contains any leavened or fermented ingredients of the five types of grain (wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt). So, during the holiday, if an observant Jew does decide to eat bread, it's the unleavened/unfermented kind, which never rises and therefore comes out flat. It's called 'matzah'.

Note that the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilnius, 1720-1797) taught that although we are not required to eat matzoh during most of Passover, nonetheless one receives the merit of observing a positive command each time one does eat matzoh.

Pasca (Πάσχα)

You can try lactose free milk or soy milk.

You just need to avoid regular bread and bread products for 8 days.

Arugula is an edible leaf and is kosher year round including Passover.

On the tenth of this month (Nissan), take a lamb or a kid for each father's house. If the household is too small (they won't be able to finish the meat), then they should join with a neighbor. It must be an unblemished, male, lamb or kid, within it's first year. Examine it until the fourteenth of the month. Everyone shall slaughter it in the afternoon of the 14th. (They will take the blood and put it on their doorpost. This only applies the year of the exodus.) They will eat the meat (of the sacrifice on that night - roasted over fire - and Matza; with bitter herbs they will eat it.

Do not eat it partially roasted or cooked in water - only roasted over fire - its head, its legs, with its innards. Don't leave any over until the morning. What is left over from it in the morning you should burn.

You should eat it with tight belts, shoes on your feet and staff in hand. You shall eat in in a hurry.

These are a summery of the guidelines given in the Torah. See Exodus 12:3 - 12:11

No. It's a personal preference.

There are always Jews who celebrate Passover regardless of the location or circumstances.

Jews celebrated Passover in the ghettos, and then in the concentration camps.

yes, they tried to do as much as possible to follow their religion

Passover did, and still does, commemorate and celebrate the physical, spiritual,

cultural, economic, and political redemption of the children of Israel, from slavery

in Egypt to the freedom to follow the principles of their ancestors and to become

a nation in their own right.

No power is used in the turning on and off process. If it is on you are using electricy if it's off you are not. It doesn't heat up or cooldown in the sense of a gradual thing. On, off, no inbetween.+

Jewish people do not have a week of fasting but do have several other fasts of varying lengths.

For example, the longest two fasts are Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Tisha b'Av (the Ninth of Av (which is a month)). They are both 25 hours long. There are also other fasts which are usually from dawn til dusk.