The name Pesach means, ‘Passover’ and refers to the account in Exodus Chapter 12, that when the Angel of Death killed the firstborn of the Egyptians, he ‘passed over’ the houses of the Israelites,which had all been carefully marked with a sprinkling of lamb blood.Another name of the festival,Chag Hammatzoth — the feast of the Unleavened Bread — grows out of the Biblical narrative of the manner in which the Jews were driven in haste out of Egypt and carried with them dough that was still unleavened. As a yearly rememberance of this emergency, the Jews were commanded to eat only unleavened bread for a period of eight days.The Passover is also known as Hag-Ha- Aviv, the Festival of Spring. The Passover is the first of the three main festivals of the Jewish Year.
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