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Jewish folks, how do you honor/celebrate Passover?
Is your religious celebration combined with celebrating the beginning of spring?
What symbolism is used? (Like in both the Pagan Ostara/Spring Equinox and Christian Easter, while honoring their respective gods, folks also decorate hard-boiled eggs, and images of rabbits/hares are seen all over, symbolizing the fertility of spring.)
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
A traditional meal is served and the story of exodus is retold. The meal is called a "seder" which means "order", because there is a specific order in which things must be done. Unleavened bread is served, which symbolized the flight from Egypt (the isrealites didn't have time to let the dough rise). Hard boiled eggs are served. They are, like Easter eggs, a symbol of springtime and renewal. Spring greens are served, but they are dipped in salt water, which symbolizes the tears of the enslaved. Bitter herbs are eaten, to stand for the bitterness of slavery. There is always a lamb shank on the table, to recall the angel of death passing over the houses of the Israelites.
- 1 decade ago
yes we acually do and i would no that because i am jewish. We end the holiday with watching the movie of moses (a great jewish legend).
