The Passover festival, Pesach is one of biggest in the Jewish year. This festival commemorates Israel's exodus and deliverance from bondage in Egypt.
During this festival, believers celebrate
the flight for freedom of all humanity - the freedom of spirit as well as personal, religious and physical freedom.
Pesach falls sometime between March or April, following the Jewish Calendar. The word Pesach means passing over of the houses whose doorways the Israelites had splashed with lambs blood, so that those inside remained unharmed when the angel of death ravaged Egypt, slaying the first-born sons. This was Egypt's last straw that convinced Pharaoh to, in the much-quoted words of Moses, "Let my people go! And go they did, into the desert to wander for an entire generation until Moses led then to the Promised land.
The festival of Pesach takes believers
on a journey via the Haggadah; the story is relived as the ritual meal is eaten.
For eight days special foods are eaten and many ordinary foods are avoided. No leaven foods are permitted, which rules out any cakes or biscuits prepared with ordinary flour.
Crisp flatbreads called matzos are served at Pesach. They are a reminder of the Israelites who in their escape to the desert, only had time to make flat breads, baked on hot stones.
In weeks prior to the Pesach feast,
the house is cleaned from top to bottom, especially the kitchen.
The Sedar plate holds a selection of foods that have special meaning for the festival.
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