#Crif #Passover - Crif wishes you a happy Passover!

 Crif wishes you a happy Passover!

The story of Pesach (Passover)

After many decades of slavery under the Pharaohs of Egypt, during which the Hebrews were forced into crushing labor and atrocities, Gd saw the plight of the people and sent Moses to Pharaoh with this message: "Let go My people, to serve Me. When, despite several warnings, Pharaoh refused to obey the divine order, Gd sent to Egypt ten devastating wounds that sowed desolation, destroying cattle and crops. In the middle of the night of the 15 Nissan of the year 2448 since the creation (1313 BCE), Gd inflicted on the Egyptians the last of the ten plagues that killed all their firstborn. In doing so, Gd spared the Children of Israel, "jumping over" their homes - hence the name of the holiday: Pesach means "jump" in Hebrew. Pharaoh's resistance was broken, and he literally chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites went away in such a hurry that the bread that was to be their provision for the road did not have time to rise. 600,000 adult men, and many more women and children, left Egypt that day, beginning their journey to Mount Sinai and their birth as God's chosen people.

The meaning of Pesach

Pesach celebrates the greatest series of miracles ever lived in Jewish history. It is the moment to rise above nature to reach the miraculous dimension of existence.

Pesach also relates to the idea of freedom. Freedom of conscience, faith and, traditionally, slavery and submission.