Pesach
Hebrew liberation holiday
Pesach is the Hebrew name for Passover, the Jewish festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.
The name derives from the angel of death "passing over" Israelite homes during the tenth plague.
Pesach lasts seven or eight days, marked by the seder meal, unleavened bread (matzah), and abstention from leavened foods: We're hosting the family for Pesach this year.
Passover ritual meal
Mass departure from somewhere
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- plaguesMass outbreaks of disease
- liberationRelease from constraint
- slaveryOwnership of people
firstborn · lamb · doorpost · freedom · wilderness · oppression · redemption · deliverance
Related people together
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- generationsPeople born around same time
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
children · questions · songs · guests · festive · spring · eight days · pilgrimage
Prohibited Passover grain products
- leavenFermenting agent for dough
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
- unleavenedNot raised by fermentation
- potato starchCarbohydrate extracted from tubers
seder
Passover ritual meal
- matzahUnleavened ritual flatbread
- charosetRitual fruit-nut paste
- afikomenBroken matzah hidden at Seder
four cups · kiddush · salt water · reclining
exodus
Mass departure from somewhere
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- plaguesMass outbreaks of disease
- liberationRelease from constraint
slavery · firstborn · lamb · doorpost · freedom · wilderness · oppression · redemption · deliverance · parting
family
Related people together
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- generationsPeople born around same time
storytelling · children · questions · songs · guests · festive · spring · eight days · pilgrimage · reunion
chametz
Prohibited Passover grain products
- leavenFermenting agent for dough
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
- unleavenedNot raised by fermentation
potato starch · macaroons · quinoa · cleaning · kashering
- Passoverseder plate, Passover, matzah, seder, charoset
- Passover Sederseder, seder plate, seder meal, matzah, matzo
- Hebrew Wordsshalom, amen, hallelujah, chai, Adonai
- Jewish CalendarRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, Hanukkah, Purim
- Jewish holidaysPassover, Hanukkah, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah
- Omerseven weeks, hod, mourning customs, nightfall, Shavuot
PesachSukkot
Jewish autumn harvest commemoration
Tisha B'Av · Shavuot · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · Hanukkah
Pesachslavery
Ownership of people
bondage · captivity · oppression · enslavement · servitude