In the formative process of the exodus, the Jewish people leave a land that represents the height of pride, and they journey ...

Jews recited it in ghettos and bunkers ... That is why each person is obligated to see himself as if he personally left Egypt. Because this is the essence of redemption: giving each person ...

During the festival of Passover, the story is told of the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt in the 13th century BCE. The untold story is the second exodus and ultimate ethnic cleansing of ...

The Haggadah makes clear that the Exodus was not an end in itself, but rather the first step in the return to the Land of ...

Pharaoh told the Israelites to flee Egypt immediately, according to the Torah. The Israelites left in a hurry, before their bread dough had time to rise, leading to the tradition of eating ...

The Israelites left their homeland and moved to Egypt to avoid a terrible drought. In biblical parlance, they were strangers living in a foreign land. Although the Bible recounts that the ...

The Bible describes how the second Passover – a year after the Israelites left Egypt – is celebrated in the wilderness, but seems to presuppose that its future celebration will be in the ...

Why do we eat only unleavened bread, or matzoh, on Pesach? To remember that when the Jews left Egypt there was not time to allow the bread to rise, so the dough was baked into hard crackers.