Pesach: The Passover

Traditions Seder Supper Ways to Celebrate Eating of the Seder Supper Setting an Extra Cup for Elijah's Return Reading of the Hagadah Getting up to see if Elijah is at the Door Greetings such as "Next Year in Jerusalem" Worship Rules Regarding the Passover: Exodus 12:21-Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. Exodus 12:43-This [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

Safe Within the Blood Jewish Holidays | Judah's Glory Pesach, or "Passover" usually coincides with and is identified with Easter in the Christian liturgical calendar. The Biblical Feast is commanded in Exodus, to commemorate the Children of Israel being kept safe on the night which while in Captivity in Egypt, the Angel of Death passed over Egypt killing the first born son of every Egyptian household in response to Pharaoh's refusal to heed Moses and Aaron and give the Hebrews freedom and safe passage to Canaan. God commanded that a lamb of one year be sacrificed, a lamb with no imperfections, and that the Blood of the lamb would be put on the sides of the door of the Jew's residence, and on the top lintel. It was to be spread with hyssop. The Angel of the Lord, passing over in darkness, would see the blood and "pass over" the house protected by the blood. Exd 12:27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. The traditional Jewish celebration begins evening to evening, and is celebrated with a Seder supper, in which symbolic foods are offered on a seder dish. The dinner commemorates the protection of the children of Israel and their deliverance from bondage in Egypt. A special dish is used which has segments, each of which contains a different food substance or herb which relate to the deliverance. Each entry has significance, and is eaten in sequence to remember the night of deliverance of the Jews from Egypt and the entrance into the Promised Land of Canaan. The Seder Plate The Plate is set with: Bitter Herbs-The bitter herbs denote the bitterness of bondage and slavery under an oppressive Egypt [the World] Zeroa- The Shankbone of a Lamb, recalling the new lamb for sacrifice, whose blood on the door saved the Jewish souls and those of the household inside the blood on the lintel and sides from the Angel of Death Charoset-A sweet mixture Horseradish Greens Eggs- the symbol of newness and renewal, of New Life. REFERENCES 1How to Prepare a Seder Plate: http://judaism.about.com/library/3_howto/ ht_sederplate.htm

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