The Symbols Of The Jewish Passover

Passover begins on the sunset marking the start of the 15th day of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish calendar. It commemorates the covenant between God and the Jewish people. Over 3,000 years ago,

There are six Jewish holidays. Which are the Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Purim, the Passover, the Shavout, and the Sukkot. According to Julianne Jacques during Hanukkah as a child her family would sing the Jewish Version of the twelve days of Christmas. She didn’t sing it for me but she told me that it goes like this “10 are the Commandments 9 are the festivals, 8 are the lights of Han, 7 days of the week, 6 days of creation, 5 books of Moses, 4 mothers of Israel, 3 Patriarchs, 2 tables of covenant and 1 God.” Jewish Americans celebrate all of these holidays with pride of their heritage.

Some say food is an exploration of culture, and taste evokes lush memories of the past. “ In An Island Passover” by Ethel G. Hofman, she described her life in the Shetland Islands. Every year, Hofman’s family celebrates Passover- a traditional Jewish holiday where time and effort to prepare a meal is like painting, and it takes months to reveal a masterpiece. While Hofman had a positive recollection of her family’s traditional cuisine, author of “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan did not share the same experience. Tan felt ashamed of sharing her traditional cuisine with a pastor's son whom she was in love with. Tan strived for her crush’s approval because she did not want to be deemed strange. Hofman and Tan had striking differences in

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

The Exodus story is a key event in regards to Israel’s history and the Old Testament. Exodus is often seen as the beginning for the Israelites in regards to their journey of faith. In Exodus it covers many events which includes Moses being called by God to lead the slaves, the escape of Egypt, wandering in the Sinai desert for forty years, establishing a covenant with God, receiving the Torah, and getting settled in the new land that they were called to. The Torah is known as the instruction from God that was given to Moses and then passed on to the Israel’s people. Passover is an event that has important significance still to this day. Jews still celebrate this event every year as a way to show the importance of passing through the life of

     The land of Egypt was visited by a succession of nine plagues. First, the rivers turned to blood. Then came the plagues of frogs, lice, murrain, flies, boils, locusts, and darkness. Still the pharaoh would refuse to let the Israelites go, until at last, Jehovah brought one more plague on the pharaoh and on Egypt.

The Ten Plagues are significant in the reading of Exodus. The backdrop of the story entails the Egyptians withholding the release of the enslaved descendants of Abraham (Cory & Hollerich, 50). These descendant are otherwise known as the Israelites. God calls upon Moses to aid him in helping with the escape of the Israelites from the wrath of the Egyptian Pharaoh (Exod 3:7-8).With the help of Aaron and God, Moses fulfills his task.

An important holiday for the Jewish community is Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is a day that is set aside to ask God for forgiveness of sins committed during the past year. Another Jewish holiday is Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year; it is celebrated to represent the creation of the universe. There are three groups of Jewish identity: (a) the

The plagues were disasters showed upon the Egyptian by God to convince Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves from the slavery and oppression they had undergone in Egypt for 400 years. When God sent Moses to deliver the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, He promised to show His wonders as approval of Moses’ power (Exodus 3:20). Nevertheless, this approval of God was to serve at least two purposes: to show the Israelites that the God of their fathers was alive and worthy of their worship and to show the Egyptians that their gods were nothing. The plague of God was enough in releasing his people because pharaoh heart was hardened, and did not obey God’s commands to let the Israelites go. Moreover, he his promise his children the “promise

The Passover was the first of the three great festivals of the Hebrew people. Passover is celebrated to commemorate their freedom by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. The Israelites were instructed to swear the blood of the slaughtered spring lamb on their doorposts of their homes. Upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord knew to “pass over” the first-born of these homes. God helped the children of Israel escape from this slavery by inflicting ten plagues upon the land. HE destroyed all the firstborn of Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to let His people go. Passover was observed on the 14th day of the first month, Abib, with the service beginning in the evening (Lev. 23:6). It was on the

Pentecost began as and remains one of the major holidays on the Jewish calendar that occurs 50 days after Passover. The word Pentecost literally means "50th or 50th day." For Jews, Pentecost was the time when they celebrated the first harvest of the agricultural year. It was a time when they gave thanks to God for what the land had produced and for what their labor had yielded. 3.

The Passover in Hebrew is known as Pesach. It begins in the Sunset of Monday, April 10, 2017, and ends at the nightfall of Tuesday, April 18, 2017. The Pesach is depicted in the book of Exodus 12:23. It describes the day when God passed over Israelites. During the Passover, the Israelites usually celebrate their Liberation from the Egyptian bondage. This is when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt. The Passover is also considered to be one of the most theologically important holidays in the Jewish calendar. It normally goes for eight days but in other communities, it lasts for only one week. The Jews are prohibited to eat any bread or leavened food. They are only allowed

. Kwanzaa is Swahili for “first fruits” and: unity, self-determination, responsibility, economics, purpose, creativity and faith. Seven symbols are also present in the Kwanzaa traditions: fruits/nuts/vegetables, place mats, ears of corn, candles, candle holders, communal cups and gifts. anukkah, also known as the festival of lights, means “dedication” in Hebrew. Celebrated during the 25th day in month of Kislev, a month that falls between late November and December, Hanukkah is an eight day Jewish Holiday. Nine candles are lit over the course of the holiday, with one candle being lit the first night, two candles being lit the second and so on. The ninth candle, also called the shamash (“attendant”), is used to light the other candles.

“One goal of Judaism is to promote constant remembrance of God throughout one’s daily life.” (Lesson 10-18) Two events that became fundamental parts of Judaism I believe are significant to Judaism today were the covenant and their major festival periods, Passover also known as Pesach, to be specific. In the beginning, Judaism was originally a polytheistic religion but now it is Monotheistic. It is the earliest of the Abrahamic religions and one of the oldest religions. “The basic Human lineage of the Hebrew people begins with the patriarch Abraham, who travelled from Mesopotamia to Canaan. Abraham’s God occasionally made promises to Abraham and sometimes made demands of him, most famously that he sacrifice his own son. The major promise of

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