What is passover?

Answer 1

it is the Jewish festival where we celebrate being liberated from Egypt. We eat no leavened bread, and the Frist two nights (or one if you in Israel) we have a ritualized retelling of the events. it is called a Seder- Hebrew for Order because the whole thing is done in a well, order. We are command to be in the mind set, not of decedents from the Israelites who left Egypt; but is if we had personal been liberated. We use a plate filled with symbolic objects, and retell the story. talking about the events and even have a list or really asked questions to keep the little ones awake (the youngest person be they 3 or 83 recites them- err so long as they know how to talk, or sign yet). No where is the name of Moses mentioned in the book we read from the Haggada ("The Telling") because the praise goes to G'd not his servant. (great as Moses was.) A festive meal is held and then the Seder continues. We end with the words next year in Jerusalem. Our homeland.

Answer 2

Well based on the fact that you have placed this question in r & s I'm going to assume that you are speaking of the passover in the Bible. So here it goes...the original passover was from when the Isrealites were held captive in Egypt and God spoke to Moses to go talk to pharaoh and tell him to let the Isrealites go. Pharaoh refused several times with the last being the most detrimental. See, every time he refused God would send a sign that that was not the right answer...frogs, water to blood, locusts and so on. The final time God was going to send the angel of death to Egypt and take out the first born son of every house. The Isrealites were told that if they took the blood from the first born lamb (foreshadow of Jesus Christ) and painted it on the door posts (another foreshadow b/c this formed a cross) that they would be spared. The angel of death would 'passover' their home. From then on the Jewish people celebrate this day because it was then that pharaoh released them to leave Egypt because his first born son died that night. For the whole story check out Exodus chapters 4-12

Answer 3

Passover is a Jewish celebration that originated from biblical times.
When Moses told Pharoe that Pharoe himself would bring misery to his own people.
Pharoe ordered all first born hebrew males to be killed. God would give him the same punishment by the Angel of Death. A mist like fog that would kill ALL non believers, including Egyptians and Hebrew.
God told Moses to paint lambs blood over the outside of the doors frame so that the Angel of Death would "pass over" the believers.
It wasn't a good night for Pharoe because his first born son died.

Answer 4

A Very Special holiday and celebration in the Jewish faith

commemorating the 10th and final plague of Egypt
when the Angel of death "Passed Over" Egypt - and those
who had placed lamb's blood over the door - were not affected

otherwise - the first born in the house lost their life

this was the last plague before the children of Israel were allowed to leave Egypt

A great miracle of God!

Answer 5

It is a re-enactment or celelbration of the night before the Jews were freed from Egyptian slavery.

The Jews were ordered by God to make this a yearly event.

On this night the first born of Egypt was killed by the will of God and the Edict of the Pharoh who had ordered the first born of the Jews to be killed.

Since the Jews were told they were going to be freed by Moses, they cooked in hast and packed in haste. As a result they could only make flat bread and a little meat and flavored it with some bitter herbs. They also drank some wine that was on hand.

So that is their celebration. Their Sedar dinner. Their Pesach.

It was the preparation for that that Jesus was dining at when he was arrested, taken, tried and crusified.

He told his disciples to remember him when they did this dinner again. To remember him when they eat and drink.

Answer 6

And that was the date of jesus died (Luke 22:1-10), the date is in exodus 12:1-5 day 14 and the month exodus 13:1-5 (Abib) later called Nisan (Esther 3:7) is the next April 2, Jehovah´Witness invite you to conmemorate it in 99,000 congregation worlwide after sunset.

Answer 7

It's a Jewish feast commemorating the event when first-born sons and first-born animals of each Egyptian family were saved as the angel of death "passed over" the homes of the Jews because their doors were marked with blood.

Answer 8

The holiday celebrating the Jews Exodus from Egypt.

Answer 9

A Jewish festival

Answer 10

It's what you do when you don't like something at the buffet.

Geez, I'm getting a lot of thumbs down. It's a joke people!