Tag Archives: Passover
Second Passover
Passover without any doubt is the most important time in the Jewish calendar. It always needs to be in spring time. Though the Jewish calendar is lunar Passover will be in the spring. In order to solve the problem and maintain Passover in the spring time we are using a leaped year, meaning: adding one [...]
Pesach (Passover)
The first time that the word pesach(Passover) is mentioned in the Old Testament is in Exodus 12, as written: ” שֶׂה תָמִים זָכָר בֶּן-שָׁנָה, יִהְיֶה לָכֶם; מִן-הַכְּבָשִׂים וּמִן-הָעִזִּים, תִּקָּחוּ. וְהָיָה לָכֶם לְמִשְׁמֶרֶת, עַד אַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה; וְשָׁחֲטוּ אֹתוֹ, כֹּל קְהַל עֲדַת-יִשְׂרָאֵל–בֵּין הָעַרְבָּיִם. וְלָקְחוּ, מִן-הַדָּם, וְנָתְנוּ עַל-שְׁתֵּי הַמְּזוּזֹת, וְעַל-הַמַּשְׁקוֹף–עַל, הַבָּתִּים, אֲשֶׁר-יֹאכְלוּ אֹתוֹ, בָּהֶם. וְאָכְלוּ [...]
The Angel of Death and Yahweh
The Festival of Passover There exists a very strong and powerful Jewish tradition remembered and enacted every year, called the Festival of Passover. This Festival is bittersweet because by remembering it one recalls that as a nation they were enslaved, but also as a nation they were freed through the miracle of God! The miracle [...]
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Psalms 114- the exile from Egypt
One of the most beautiful passages in the Haggadah is taken from the Old Testament. Every year we sit around the table, singing the songs of Passover, one of them is this- ” בְּצֵאת יִשְׂרָאֵל, מִמִּצְרָיִם; בֵּית יַעֲקֹב, מֵעַם לֹעֵז. הָיְתָה יְהוּדָה לְקָדְשׁוֹ; יִשְׂרָאֵל, מַמְשְׁלוֹתָיו. הַיָּם רָאָה, וַיָּנֹס; הַיַּרְדֵּן, יִסֹּב לְאָחוֹר. הֶהָרִים, רָקְדוּ כְאֵילִים; גְּבָעוֹת, [...]