RE- pesach and sukkot

• Pesach


  The Jewish festival (Passover) which remembers the redemption of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
• Seder


  A Jewish ritual meal, held outside Israel on the first and second day of the Passover festival. In Israel it is held on the first day only.
• This day must be one that you will remember. You must keep it as a festival to God for all generations. It is a law for all time that you must celebrate it.
• Pesach


  • Lasts for seven to eight days and begins with the Seder
  • Wine is served as a symbol of the lambs' blood painted onto the doorposts to save Jewish children from the final of the ten plagues
  • Matzah (unleavened bread) is eaten to represent the fact that the Jews did not have time to let the bread rise before their escape
• Foods on the Seder plate

  • Karpas - a green vegetable dipped in salt water and symbolising both new life and the tears shed by the Jews in slavery
  • Maror - bitter herbs, symbolising the bitterness of slavery
  • Baytsah - an egg (not to be eaten) to represent sacrifices in the Temple
  • Z'roah - a lamb bone (also not to be eaten) representing the lamb sacrificed before the Exodus
  • Charoset - a sweet paste to remind Jews that life is sweeter now
• Karpas


  Symbolises the tears shed by the enslaved Hebrew people
• Sukkot


  A festival which celebrates the harvest and commemorates the period after the Exodus, when the Jews wandered in the wilderness
• Sukkot


  • Celebrated for eight or nine days
  • Jews eat and sometimes even sleep in their own sukkah (tent-like structures) as a reminder of their ancestors who lived this way in the wilderness