Jewish religionsPassover (Pesah), which celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, begins on the 15th of the month of Nisan and continues for seven days, until the 21st of Nisan, although many diaspora communities celebrate it. for eight days (Strassfeld, Michael, 1985). The name Passover is taken from the story of the Exodus: during the tenth and final plague inflicted on Pharaoh to break his will, God passed over the Israelites and struck only the Egyptian firstborn. That night, Pharaoh finally agreed to let the Israelites go; and since then we have gathered that night to commemorate that time and to contemplate the meaning of being liberated by the “mighty hand and outstretched arm” of the Saint. (Strassfeld, Michael, 1985). The central meaning of Passover is liberation, and that is why it is also called “zeman heiruteinu” — the season of our liberation. Another name for Passover is “hag ha-aviv” – the festival of spring. The Jewish calendar is established in such a way that certain holidays always occur in a particular season of the year (unlike, for example, the Muslim calendar) (Drucker, Malka, 1981). Thus, the Liberation Festival is also the Spring Festival, not simply by chance but by design. After the gloom of winter when everything is covered in a veil of snow, spring marks the rebirth of the earth with the bursting of green life. Likewise, a people chained by oppressive slavery, doomed to a slow process of degradation, even extinction, emerges from Egypt on a new journey of life leading to a land flowing with milk and honey (Bowker, John, 1997). spring and Passover are both “rebirth” and “hope”. Thus, the spirit of renewed optimism sparked by the sights and smells of spring is reinforced in a Jewish context by Passover which trumpets the possibilities of liberation. Passover reminds us every year that no matter how terrible our situation, we must not lose hope (Strassfeld, Michael, 1985). Passover offers the possibility of renewal, proclaiming that such change is as intrinsic to human nature as flowering trees are to nature. world (Bowker, John, 1997). Another name for Passover is “hag ha-matzot” — the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The matzah evokes images of that night when the Israelites ate the sacrificial lamb in fearful and impatient anticipation of the future. Around them rose the lamentations of the Egyptians mourning the death of their firstborn (Drucker, Malka, 1994).