Passover

Passover is one of the Jewish holidays. Like sukkot and Shavuot, Passover is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals. On Passover the Jewish people walked to Jerusalem.
Passover is celebrated on the fifth of Nisan.

The names

Passover is called "Passover" because on this day the g-d pass over the Jewish's homes and hit only in the Egyptian's homes.
Passover is also called "Festival of unleavened bread" because on this holiday we are eating unleavened breads, we mustn't eat regular bread only the unleavened bread.
Passover is also called "Festival of Spring" because this holiday is always celebrated at spring.
Passover is also called "Festival of Freedom" because on this day the Jewish nation escaped from Egypt.

The History of Passover

In the Jewish History, Passover is describes as A great famine was in the world. Seven years before the famine Josef (the sun of Yakkov) solved Parho's dream which talked about a great famine that would appear in the world after seven years. Josef ordered the Egyptians to save foods and water to the famine years.
The famine appeared, Yakkov and his suns had no food and they went to Egypt, there Josef said to his brothers that he is their brothers and they camping in Goshen and there they lived.
After two hundred and ten years (210 years) the Jewish nation lived in Egypt and The Egyptians were working them hard. The Jewish peoples prayed to Hashem and Hashem decided to help them. He sent Moshe to talk with parho, but every time parho refuse to set the Jewish people free. Hashem sent to the Egyptians diseases which hit and killed Egyptians. After the tenth disease parho called Moshe and said him to leave is country. The Jewish people left Egypt and walked in the desert.
Parho regretted saying the Jewish people to go free and ran after them. Hashem told Moshe to stop walking next to the red sea. The Jewish people saw the Egyptian's army ran after them and they were very afraid. Hashem did a miracle and the sea was divided into twelve ways and the Jewish nation walked between the waves (on land). The Egyptians started to run and when they were in the sea Hashem stopped doing the miracle and the Egyptians drowned.
Hashem ordered us to celebrate Passover in aim to remember the miracles which he did.

The orders and the customs

We must eat unleavened bread and mustn't eat leavened foods
On the first evening of Passover (on the fourteen day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar and in the Gregorian calendar on March or April) we do the Passover Seder. In this evening we read the story about the Exodus from Egypt, eat Matza (unleavened bread), sing, and Praise g-d.
On Passover we read the text of the Haggadah that derived from the Torah, Mishnah and the Talmud. This text tells us the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt in aim to tell the children the story. The text contains questions that the kid ask in aim to intrigue the kids.

In this evening we eat symbolic foods:

• Maror – bitter vegetable, symbolizing the bitterness of the slavery in Egypt. G-d ordered us to eat Matza and Maror with the Passover's sacrifice.
• Charoset – a sweet, brown mixture symbolizing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves.
• Karpas – vegetable which is dipped into salt water (parsley, celery or potato). the dipping into salt water symbolizing the pain and the tears felt by the Jewish slaves in Egypt.
• Zeroah – meat symbolizing the Passover's sacrifice. When Beit HaMikdash (the Temple in Jerusalem) was the Jewish people sacrificed sheep on Passover called "the Passover's sacrifice" ("Korban Pesach").
• Eggs – symbolizing the festival sacrifice that was offered in Beit HaMikdash.

The Haggadah

The Haggadah is the text which we read on Passover evening. This text contains the story of the Exodus from Egypt. We read the Haggadah in the Passover Seder evening. The Haggadah contains the song "What's changed" ("Ma Nishtanah") in this song the kids ask our parents "What's especially on this day that we do strange things" and our parents tell them the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
The parents say: we were slave in Egypt and G-d help us and free us with his force. We tell stories about Tannaim, and praise g-d. We answer for four kinds of kids: clever kid, bed kid, naive kid and kid who doesn't know to ask. Then we tell the story. We said Hallel (Praise), eat and after the meal continue to say Hallel (praise). We eat the Afikoman (a piece of Matza) this piece symbolizing the Passover sacrifice that was eaten when we were full.
Chametz (Leavened foods)
We mustn't eat, see, and find any leavened foods. These laws are very hard and we must learn them before Passover. This law is important, hard law that we must do.
We can sell our Chametz food to non Jews for the Passover; we do Chametz reviewers and removal of leavened bread, and we clean the house well.
After Passover, Chametz which was in Israeli people own while Passover mustn't be eaten, we mustn't enjoy it, and we mustn't give it to non Jew people and must burn it.

The tree blessing

In Nisan we bless the tree blessing. The spring is start and we thanks g-d about the tree which flowers.