From Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, President of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership -
Passover is not simply a Jewish holiday; it is an invitation to be free
and a method for achieving freedom.
The holiday of Passover takes it’s name, according to the Hebrew Bible, from the ancient Israelites last night in Egypt. On that night, some 3,200 years ago if the story is historically accurate, God “passed over” the houses of those leaving Egypt, sparing them from the last of the ten plagues: the death of the first born Egyptians. The Hebrew name for Passover is Pesach, from the word meaning to pass over.
(Source: Wikipedia, washingtonpost.com & foodnetwork.com; photo credit: seder plate, synagogues.com; matzah and kosher wine, path2restoration.org)
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