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Jewish Religions

References

Drucker, Malka, (1981), PASSOVER A Season of Freedom, New York: Holiday
House

Drucker, Malka, (1994), The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays, New York:
Little, Brown and Company

Bowker, John, (1997), World Religions, New York: DK Publishing, Inc.

Strassfeld, Michael, (1985), The Jewish Holidays, New York: Harper and Row,
Publishers, Inc.; Published simultaneously in Canada, by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto

Passover (Pesah), which celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, begins on the fifteenth of the month of Nisan and continues for seven days, through Nisan 21, though many Diaspora communities celebrate it for eight days (Strassfeld, Michael, 1985). The name Passover is taken from the Exodus story: During the tenth and ultimate plague inflicted on Pharaoh to break his will, God passed over the Israelites and struck down only the Egyptian firstborn. That night Pharaoh finally agreed to let the Israelites go; and ever since then, we......


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