Pesah


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(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

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For example, according to the Code of Jewish Law (Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim, Hilkhot Pesa h 1:2), preparations for Pesah should begin thirty days before the festival.
My daughter knows how to cook gefilte-fish and she serves it for the Pesah meal we have every year.
Eileen Pesah, head of Sales at the U.K.'s Pilot Productions, said that she too will be focusing on Asia.
The imagery took the form of a monster with a staring eye, possibly reminiscent of Krasner's Russian grandmother Pesah, who was said to have had the power of the evil eye.
Here, the author compares or presents the rituals of "passage" and "sacrifice", including circumcision, which mark the new moon, first fruits, the Pesah, and others.
For the Gra's commentary see Yitzhak Eliyahu Landa, ed., Hagadah shel Pesah Yekarah Mi-peninim: Im Perush She-Hiber Eliyahu mi-Vilna (Jerusalem: Otsar HaPoskim, 1998), 55-56.
Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah.
Festival Of Freedom: Essays On Pesah And The Haggadah from the deftly written works of the late Rabbi Joseph B.
The poet tells us that Dawn "scatters her garments like a dancing girl." The term pesas can refer to a broad range of things that beautify someone or something, and is generally to be translated "ornament." It can refer to textiles, as the metaphor in RV 2.3.6 illustrates: tantum tatam samvayanti samici yajnasya pesah ...
Memory and memorial are key to the central Christian rite of the eucharist; they are at the heart of the Jewish feast of Pesah (Passover), Sabbath, Yom Kippur, and the celebration of the holocaust.
Perhaps the wine he refers to is not the wine of foolishness alluded to by many commentators, but the wine of joy and sanctification and freedom used at Pesah, on Shabbat, and twice under the bridal canopy.
It is the word with which the second part of the liturgy of the Eve of the Passover (Pesah) starts.