Passover... The first feast of the year! Such tradtion in the Jewish culture! Such blessing for Christians! For the Jews, a celebration of deliverance from slavery in Egypt and fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham that they will live in their land. For Christians and Messianic Jews, the deliverance of the believer from a life in bondage to sin, the promise of eternal life! The holiday has tremendous significance for Jews and Believers in Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah, our SACRIFICE LAMB! He has delivered us from sin and gives us eternal life! Christians can rejoice and celebrate this holiday and we invite you to do so! Use the information on this site to help you in that endeavor. It will be a worthwhile experience and provide memories for years to come!
Leviticus 23:5-6 On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
Complete instructions for celebrating Passover are found in Exodus 12. Here is a sampling. Exodus 12:5-10 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
Exodus 12:21-24 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever."
Celebrate Passover! The meal is called a Passover Seder (SAYduhr). Seder means "service". You will need a Passover Haggadah (hagGAHduh). Haggadah means "narration". The Haggadah is a book that is read as part of the service. There are several offered on this website. Intersperse music throughout as part of your celebration. You can use Christian or Messianic music. Passover recipes and food ideas as well as other passover resources can be found by clicking on the Celebrate Passover link. Let your children participate by asking the four questions and searching for the afikomen. Discover the flavors and meanings of the elements of the passover meal: the lamb, the bitter herbs, matzah, karpas, charoset. Enjoy the celebration and let us know how your night went! My family typically invites guests over on Good Friday and we celebrate passover on that night. This generally (but not always!) falls during the week of Unleavened Bread.