| Jewish Passover, or Pesach, is celebrated up to | | | | unleavened dough. After a lot of travel and attempts |
| these days to keep alive the memory of the great | | | | to escape Egyptians, Jewish people found their way |
| liberation that took place in the Jewish history - the | | | | out of desert sands through the bottom of the Red |
| day when ancient Hebrew people cast off the yoke | | | | Sea. |
| of Egyptians and became free with the help of God | | | | Since then Jewish Passover has become a holiday of |
| and the prophet Moses. The Jewish Passover | | | | freedom for most Jewish people. In order to prepare |
| celebrates the miracle of Jewish people's freedom | | | | yourself for the celebration of Jewish Passover, you |
| and independence. It is an eight-day holiday that | | | | need to find and burn all the leavened bread in your |
| starts on the 15th of the first month of the Jewish | | | | house the day before the Passover. However, now |
| year, Nisan (in March or April). The history of this | | | | Jewish people prefer to give their bread away to the |
| holiday goes back to the time when Jewish people | | | | needy, sell it to people of other religions or finish it |
| were held in servitude by Egyptian pharaohs. They | | | | before the holiday instead of burning it. It takes a lot |
| were used as slaves to build pyramids, do hard | | | | of time and effort to prepare the traditional Jewish |
| exhausting work and serve Egyptians. | | | | Passover meal, Seder. |
| Only after 10 plagues sent by God did the Egyptian | | | | That is why Jewish people buy required ingredients |
| Pharaoh, Ramses II, let Jewish slaves go free and | | | | and prepare the menu several days in advance. Since |
| leave his lands. The 10th plague was sent to slay the | | | | the whole family has to get together for such an |
| Egyptian firstborns. Jewish people were to put fresh | | | | important holiday, most family members make travel |
| blood of a spring lamb on their doorway, so that the | | | | arrangements and plan their meeting in someone's big |
| holy spirit would not kill their firstborns. That is how | | | | house. In this respect the Passover is like a great |
| God "passed over" Jewish houses and did not harm | | | | family reunion that unites Jewish families for as long |
| them. When Jewish people left Egypt, they could | | | | as the tradition is observed. Read more... |
| cook and eat only Matza, the bread made of | | | | |