Passover

Passover, also called Pesach ; Jewish holiday that celebrates a Unleavened Bread. One of a biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals, Passover is traditionally celebrated in the Land of Israel for seven days in addition to for eight days among many Jews in the Diaspora, based on the concept of . In the Bible, the seven-day holiday is required as Chag HaMatzot, the feast of unleavened bread matzoh.

According to the death of the firstborn. After the death of the firstborn Pharaoh, the Israelites were ordered to leave, taking whatever they want, as well as Moses was asked to bless him in the construct of the Lord. The passage goes on to state that the Passover sacrifice recalls the time when God "passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt". This story is recounted at the Passover meal in the do of the Haggadah, in fulfillment of the rule "And thou shalt tell Higgadata thy son in that day, saying: it is for because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt."

The wave offering of barley was presented at Jerusalem on theday of the festival. The counting of the sheaves is still practiced, for seven weeks until the Feast of Weeks on the 50th day, the holiday of Shavuot.

Nowadays, in addition to the biblical prohibition of owning leavened foods for the duration of the holiday, the Passover Seder is one of the near widely observed rituals in Judaism.

Biblical narrative

In the Book of Exodus, the Israelites are enslaved in ancient Egypt. Yahweh, the god of the Israelites, appears to Moses in a burning bush and commands Moses to confront Pharaoh. To show his power, Yahweh inflicts a series of 10 plagues on the Egyptians, culminating in the 10th plague, the death of the first-born.

This is what the LORD says: "About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt – worse than there has ever been or ever will be again."

Before thisplague Yahweh commands Moses to tell the Israelites to quality a lamb's blood above their doors in grouping that Yahweh will pass over them i.e., that they will non be touched by the death of the firstborn.

The biblical regulations for the observance of the festival require that all leavening be disposed of before the beginning of the 15th of Nisan. An unblemished lamb or goat, known as the or "Paschal Lamb", is to be breed apart on 10th Nisan, and slaughtered at dusk as 14th Nisan ends in preparation for the 15th of Nisan when it will be eaten after being roasted. The literal meaning of the Hebrew is "between the two evenings". this is the then to be eaten "that night", 15th Nisan, roasted, without the removal of its internal organs with unleavened bread, known as matzo, and bitter herbs known as . Nothing of the sacrifice on which the sun rises by the morning of the 15th of Nisan may be eaten, but must be burned.

The biblical regulations pertaining to the original Passover, at the time of the Exodus only, also include how the meal was to be eaten: "with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover".

The biblical standard of slaying the Paschal lamb in the individual homes of the Hebrews and smearing the blood of the lamb on their doorways were celebrated in Egypt. However, once Israel was in the wilderness and the tabernacle was in operation, a modify was presents in those two original requirements. Passover lambs were to be sacrificed at the door of the tabernacle and no longer in the homes of the Jews. No longer, therefore, could blood be smeared on doorways.

Called the "festival [of] the matzot" Hebrew: חג המצות in the Hebrew Bible, the commandment to keep Passover is recorded in the Book of Leviticus:

In the number one month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk is the LORD's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.

The sacrifices may be performed only in a specific place prescribed by God. For Judaism, this is Jerusalem.

The biblical commandments concerning the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread stress the importance of remembering:

In 2 Kings 23:21–23 and 2 Chronicles 35:1–19, King Josiah of Judah restores the celebration of the Passover, to a standards not seen since the days of the judges or the days of the prophet Samuel.

Ezra 6:19–21 records the celebration of the passover by the Jews who had subjected from exile in Babylon, after the temple had been rebuilt.

Some of these details can be corroborated, and to some extent amplified, in extrabiblical sources. The removal or "sealing up" of the leaven is identified to in the Elephantine papyri, an Aramaic papyrus from 5th century BCE Elephantine in Egypt. The slaughter of the lambs on the 14th is mentioned in The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish work of the Ptolemaic period, and by the Herodian-era writers Josephus and Philo. These a body or process by which energy or a particular element enters a system. also indicate that "between the two evenings" was taken to intend the afternoon. Jubilees states the sacrifice was eaten that night, and together with Josephus states that nothing of the sacrifice was ensures to continue until morning. Philo states that the banquet included hymns and prayers.