Jewish Holiday-Password (pesach)

Jewish Holiday-Password (Pesach)

Amongst the holidays that the Jews assign special meanings and devotions to is the Passover otherwise known as the Pesach to Jews, which means, to pass over or to spare. This Holiday, also known as the Festival of the Unleavened Bread is a seven days festival that usually starts between the last week in March and the last week in April depending on the Jews calendar month of Nisan. It usually occurs during the spring season. The exact day of the year varies every year, since the day of its observance has some relationship to the full moon. Despite what day it may fall on, the Passover is a significant part of the Jews history and existence and a great religious festival for Judaism.

The Festival of Unleavened Bread has its origins in the great Egyptian empire where the Israelites according to the Jews history were enslaved for about four hundred hears. It was during the Passover that God decided to use a last result to set the Israelites free from the tyrannical reign of pharaoh, after all others had failed. During the Password, God instructed the Jews to plaster their door post with the blood of a lamb so that the Angel of death would pass over their homes when it he come to destroy the first born of all the Egyptians. The Deaths of all the first-borns of the Egyptians from the palace to the fields cause pharaoh to allow the people of Israel to leave the land of Egypt and head for the Promised Land. Immediately following their exodus from Egypt, the Holy Bible states that God told the Jews "And this day shall become a memorial for you, and you shall observe it as festivals to the Lord, for your generations, as an eternal decree shall you observe it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes ... you shall guard the unleavened bread, because on this very day I will take you out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day for your generations as an eternal decree ( Exodus 12:14-17). The Jews have since observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread throughout the ages as a national history and religious holiday season.

During the Passover season, the Jews clean their homes thoroughly and do several other preparations for the holiday. The day itself comprise of numerous kinds of rituals. These rituals vary amongst the various branches of Judaism and their doctrine. One of the common the most common ritual is the eating of unleavened bread made only of water and flower which they usually cook hurryingly. The bread and the quick preparation symbolize the fast manner in which the Jews had to prepare and leave Egypt. Most Judaist also observe the dipping of herbs or certain vegetables in salt water and eating, an act that signifies the bitterness of slavery their forefathers endure in Egypt. Common also is the eating of fruits and nuts with wine, a symbol of the mortal used by the Jews

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