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 Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:45 pm
Hey all!
I am currently reading a long extensive chapter on Judaism in my textbook. I find it to be quite fascinating.
Anyway, can someone please provide me with information regarding Passover? Such as, why Jews dont eat bread (is it bread?) on such a day? and also, the story of Hanukkah and the significance of the Menorah.
Thank you, I would really love to know about these two things.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:55 am
Leaven Bread (the bread you get in the super market, for example, vs. say crackers or similar "bread") they don't eat, along with some other things. I'm..not quite sure why, though. I think tradition to the story of Passover, though. (Angel of Death came and killed the firstborn son of every family in Egypt, both native and Jewish, that did not have lamb's blood on the door frame. I think the Jews were told not to eat leaven bread as well during that time)
Hanukkah's story is basically a group of Jewish people got jumped by an army, and they holed up in an old temple. The temple was dark, so they lit a lamp for light. They looked out and noticed the army had set up shop and wasn't going anywhere in a hurry. So they checked the stores of oil, and they had enough for one day. So they prayed to God while they stayed in the temple, and the lamp kept burning. It burned for a week and a day, and the army, at the end of the time, had left.
Or something like that.
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