Passover Seder
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The Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world at the start of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar. The day fall
Table set for the Passover Seder
Forli Siddur, 1383, British Library
A Ukrainian 19th-century lubok representing the Seder table
Machine-made matzo
Plagues of Egypt
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In the Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt were ten disasters that Yahweh inflicted on the Egyptians to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting the Pharao
Passover Seder
…sunset. According to the Exodus narrative, at the beginning of the 15th of Nisan in Ancient Egypt, the Jewish people were enslaved to Pharaoh. After the tenth plague struck Egypt at midnight, killing all the first-born sons from the first-born of Pharaoh to the first-born of the lowest Egyptian to all the first-born…
Scenes from the Book of Exodus: The death of the firstborns (including the Pharaoh's son), and the Israelites leaving Egypt (Haggadah shel Pesaḥ, 1325–1374 CE, Barcelona via British Library)
The first plague: Water Is Changed into Blood, James Tissot
The sixth plague: miniature out of the Toggenburg Bible, created c. 1411. Commonly the picture is mistaken as a depiction of the Black Death.
Spanish 15th century, Massacre of the Firstborn and Egyptian Darkness, c. 1490, hand-colored woodcut