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Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition.An 1893 painting by Moshe Maimon.. Marranos is a term for Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but who continued to practice Judaism in secrecy or were suspected of it.
A stained-glass window depicting the Passover Lamb, a concept integral to the foundation of Easter [6] [7] The festival that early Christians celebrated was called in Greek Πάσχα (Pascha), a transliteration of the Aramaic word פסחא, cognate to Hebrew פֶּסַח (Pesach). The word originally designated the Passover feast of Exodus 12. [8]
The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder.It belongs to a group of Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Haggadahs, originating "somewhere in northern Spain", [1] most likely the city of Barcelona, around 1350, and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world.
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Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is just around the corner. The wait to display the Seder plate is nearly over. Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is just around the corner.
The Passover Seder [a] is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. [1] It is conducted throughout the world on the eve of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar (i.e., at the start of the 15th; a Hebrew day begins at sunset). The day falls in late March or in April of the Gregorian calendar.
When is Passover this year? Get the answer, along with a better understanding about the meaning and history of the Jewish holiday.
The Jewish exiles transported there by the said Phiros were descended by lineage from Judah, Benjamin, Shimon and Levi, and were, according to Abrabanel, settled in two districts in southern Spain: one, Andalusia, in the city of Lucena – a city so-called by the Jewish exiles that had come there; the second, in the country around Ṭulayṭulah .