Significance of the Food and Ritual Objects Used at the Festival of Passover

Passover is one of the most widely observed holidays and one of the most sacred to the Jewish people. It is a time of songs, family, and celebration. During this time, the Jews commemorate the bondage of the Israelites to Egypt. This weeklong celebration includes several rituals such as the meal known as the seder, removal of leavened bread and readings from the Haggadah. Passover customs between the Yemenites (Eastern Jews) and the European Jews vary in certain ways. One variation is in their musical interpretations of the Passover seder.

The most important celebration that takes place on the Friday of the Sabbath is the Shabbat dinner. This takes place at home with family and friends. The Shabbat table is laid with two loaves, known as "hallot" which, like the candles, represent the dual Shabbat commandments to keep and remember Sabbath, and cups, over which Kiddush is recited. The father blesses the children in order of age, before Kiddush is recited over the wine, which "gladdens the heart" (Psalm 104:15).

Finally, Jews and Christians interacted differently in their society. First, eating habits differed in both religions. Jews participate in kashrut, a diet that restricts eating any animal without cloven hooves or scales. Christians, however, don’t have any specific dietary laws to follow. Another difference is the significance of Passover, a 7-8 day Jewish holiday. During Passover, Jews celebrate the exodus out of Egypt by eating special meals, performing rituals, and praying. Christians have changed the Passover meal to a celebration of the Last Supper, or Jesus’ last meal before his crucifixion. Finally, a similarity in the Jewish and Christian society is the

Passover is one of the oldest festivals in the world. This festival falls in spring, in the first month of the Hebrew year, called Nisan (March-April), and lasts for eight days, from the fifteenth to the twenty-third. It commemorates the release of the Israelites from Egypt and the fact that God “passed over” their houses when he sought the first-born in that land.

It’s a tradition on Rosh Hashanah, to eat a variety of random foods as symbols for the upcoming Jewish New Year.

A seder plate is is a special plate containing symbolic foods eaten or displayed at the Passover Seder.

These unleavened breads were prepared by the Jews using the blood of the Christian children. Since this event had occurred the Jews did not drink red wine at their Passover.

“The Ezekiel prophet used this as donations to the priest” (Ezek. 44:30). Second, The Kugels are baked casserole, most commonly made from egg noodles. It's significant because it looks like the manna. The manna is the food that fell from heaven during the Jews 40-year journey in the desert. The crust found in the Kugel symbolizes the dew that fell prior to and after the manna.

Artoklasia (Baking of the Bread) it symbolizes health and wellbeing, it’s an offering that has a personal sanctification ans it also is to help fight bodily infirmities and illness “IF TAKEN WITH FAITH.” It is divided up into five pieces for two reasons. One being that the whole community can get a piece. Second that it symbolizes the five thousand people Jesus fed with five loafs and two fish. Tsoureki, is bread with a red egg in it represents Jesus resurrection we celebrate it on Pascha.

I was raised by secular Israeli Jewish parents in the United States. Growing up I would always see my Christian and American friends celebrating Christmas and Easter with their families, I would see my Jewish American friends going to the synagogue and having Shabbat שבת dinners, but my family was secular. We don’t have shabbat dinners, we don't go to synagogue, and we don't celebrate any of the small holidays. We only celebrate the high holidays like Passover פסכ and Rosh Ha’shanah רוש השנה. Even the way we celebrate is secular, our seders סדרים are family gatherings with all of our friends. We sit around tables and sing and talk. It isn't about the story or reason for the actual celebration we are all there because

Sukkot festival is celebrated in autumn, and it lasts for seven days. This festival can also be called Tabernacles, but Sukkot is the usual title. Sukkot means "little shelters" or "booths," and Jews build little shelters, called sukkahs, during this holiday to honor the fact that the Lord provided the Israelites with shelter while they were in the wilderness. During the festival, Jews pray in their sukkahs, which has a roof of tree branches. Sukkahs have to be directly under the sky. All meals are eaten in the sukkah doing Sukkot. and the sukkah is generally treated as their temporary home. During Sukkot, the book of Ecclesiastes is read; Ecclesiastes is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.

There are three pilgrim festivals followed by the Jewish people. Shavuot is the second festival celebrated. Shavuot is a holiday that is celebrated by the Jewish community two days in a row each year. Shavuot is followed by the counting of Passover because the months are variable and determined by observation. Though, roughly the days of Shavuot fall on the 5th of Sivan until the 7th of Sivan.On the Gregorian calendar Shavuot is celebrated on Saturday the 11th of June for two days until Monday the 13th of June. Generally Shavuot falls in spring in late May or the beginning of June.

The Sabbath also know as the Shabbat in the Hebrew world, is such an important day for the religion of Judaism as G_d left it as day of rest, it comes about from the bible story Creation: ‘G_d rested from creating the universe on the seventh day of that first week, therefore Jews rest from work on the Sabbath’. The main idea of this day is 100% for rest and relaxation, lights and appliances must be set (timers can be set in use if needed), all food must be prepared and ready as no cooking can be done during Sabbath (this includes all meals during Sabbath) before sunset. This festival is set on the Friday, which is delineated in Torah.

Yom Kippur is the most important feast in the Jewish calendar. The Jewish people celebrates this feat on every consecutive year. I chose to speak about the feast of Yom Kippur because it was inspired to me by one of the initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way (Carmen Hernandez). Hernandez had a deep love of for the Jewish Liturgies especially the feast of Yom Kippur. Every single year the Neocatechumenal Way in different countries has a retreat and in the retreat there is a special day reserved for conversion(confession). On this day of conversion all the members of the Neocatechumenal communities have to fast the whole day and feed themselves only with the word of God(Bible reading) and at the end of the day they confess all their sins in a penitential celebration. Hernandez always explained the relationship between Yom Kippur and the confession(penitential celebration) for us Catholic, that is why I have a special love for this feast because I heard of it every single year in the annual Neocatechumenal Way retreat. Another fact that pushed me to write about Yom Kippur is that we are in the year of mercy. So my paper will be based on the history of the Feast of Yom Kippur and Its origins and how it was prepared and celebrated among the Jewish. I will describe how the feast is celebrated and I will show its values in the Jewish faith. I will show as well how Jesus Christ celebrated the feast of Yom Kippur. Finally I will illustrated how Jesus fulfilled the feast of Yom

Jewish people celebrate Passover with a ritual dinner called Seder, which represents the meal that the Israelites ate before fleeing Egypt (Oxtoby 123). In a Passover Seder, the head of the family begins the ceremony by sanctifying the holiday with a Qiddush, or benediction, over a cup of wine (Tobias 88). While reciting a prayer, raw vegetables dipped in vinegar, a shank bone and a hard-boiled egg are presented to the family members. Then, a second cup of wine is poured and at this time, the Passover liturgy, or Haggadah, begins (Oxtoby 124). The