List of Jewish Festivals

Jewish Festival of Pesach

Pesach is also known as Passover and it is one of the most observed Jewish festivals because of its significant meaning. Pesach is taken from the book of Exodus in the Bible, which gives the account of how God spared the Children of Israel from their slavery in Egypt by inflicting the ten plagues that only affected Pharaoh and the Egyptians. The Israelites had placed a marking of blood from a lamb on the outside of their doorposts, and then the Lord would "pass over" the houses that had the blood and no harm would come to anyone inside the home.

During Pesach to this day, the story in Exodus of the freedom of the Jewish slavery is read in Jewish families all over the world. The holiday typically lands in March or April of each year and lasts for seven days and referred to as the Feast of Unleavened Bread because the story has been told that the Jewish people had to leave in such a rush that they could not let the bread rise. Therefore, unleavened bread is used during Pesach to commemorate the significance of the festival. Finally, during this festival, no leavening is to be eaten and nothing that came in contact with leavening should be used to serve meals on.