04/04/2023
To our Jewish Friends and Families 'Chag Pesach Sameach'
Celebrating Passover
Passover 2023 will be celebrated from April 5 to April 13. In many Reform Jewish communities, Passover is celebrated for seven days, not eight as the more traditional Jewish communities—including both Orthodox and Conservative communities— who celebrate for eight days.
Family and friends gather together after nightfall on the first and second nights of the holiday for the high point of the festival observance, the Seder. During the Seder, which means “order” in Hebrew, the experience of the Exodus is told in story, song, prayer, and the tasting of symbolic foods. Seder meals include four cups of wine, eating matzah and bitter herbs, and retelling the story of the Exodus.
What Is Passover?
The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, is an annual weeklong festival commemorating the emancipation of Jewish peoples from slavery (in ancient Egypt). The Hebrew name, Pesach, means “to passover” because the plague in Egypt that killed all first-borns passed over the Israelites’ homes, sparing the lives of their children.
For more information on the Jewish celebrations for Passover click here: https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/default_cdo/jewish/Passover-2023-Pesach.htm
