passover

     

  Part of a series of articles on Jews an Judaism

Trivia about passover

  • The Christian celebration of Easter & this Jewish festival also known as Pesach can both occur in April
  • Some early Christians considered Easter as a new part of this Jewish festival
  • Easter is the Christian version of this Jewish feast with which it often coincides
  • The "4 questions" asked on this occasion include wondering why we have to eat unleavened bread
  • Holiday for eating lotsa matzo(8)
  • Leviticus 23 mentions the Day of Atonement as well as this "feast of unleavened bread"
  • In Exodus the feast of unleavened bread is combined with this holiday
  • Not all matzos can be used during this holiday, only those in boxes designated for it
  • Exodus 12 has instructions for this holiday; please respond with one question, not 4
  • Also known as the Festival of Unleavened Bread, this observance begins on the 15th of Nisan
  • Bitter herbs are featured on this holiday's Seder plate
  • According to 3 of the Gospels, this Jewish holiday was being celebrated during the Last Supper
  • This 8-day observance celebrates the liberation of Jews from Egyptian bondage
  • Holiday for Matzo, Matzo men
  • During this 8-day Jewish observance, the eating of hametz, leavened bread, is prohibited
  • As the Jewish religious calendar is lunar, all festivals are movable, including this one with a seder
  • The horseradish on the plate for this Jewish holiday symbolizes the bitterness of slavery in Egypt
  • Shavu'ot, or Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday celebrated 7 weeks after this festival
  • Symbols of spring, a lamb shank & an egg are part of the traditional plate used during this Jewish holiday
  • (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Holiday on which you'd hear the following:"Why is this night different from all the other nights?"