Passover or known better for Jews in the Hebrew language as Pessach; or Pesach; Seder Pesach is a jews important religious holiday. Hospitality is very important in this specific holiday, on the holiday evening night a table set up for a Passover Seder.
The official name in Hebrew: סדר פסח.
Cultural Significance
This Holiday is a memorial for the time that Jews become slaves, after escaping from many dry seasons in Israel, and went to search for food in Ancient Egypt. also it is a Celebration of the triumph of the slave on the Egyptian monarchy by the hand of God that heard there cry. The Exodus, the freedom from slavery, by God's Children with signs of holy miraculous as the followed Ten Plagues, the opening of the sea and sinking the Egyptian army in it, and God's true ten commandments.
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For jews, it is also the beginning of the 49 days of Counting of the Omer, it is Connected to barley harvest in spring. it ends with Shavuot ("Festival of Weeks") which follows 49 days from the second night of Passover. Passover is a spring festival which during the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem was connected to the offering of the "first-fruits of the barley", barley being the first grain to ripen and to be harvested in the Land of Israel. In the Northern Hemisphere Passover takes place in spring as the Torah prescribes it: "in the month of spring".
Celebrations In Jewish practice
one or two festive Seder meals begin in the 15th day of Month Nisan [the Jewish Month][by Jewish calander], Ends at the 21st day of Nisan in Israel. Passover, or Pesach, is a major, biblically derived Jewish holiday. Jews celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in ancient Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. According to standard biblical chronology, this event had taken place at about 1300 BCE. In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God helped the Children of Israel escape from their slavery in Egypt you can read more in Wikipedia or the Bible story of Exodus.