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Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, [1] meaning fourteenth) is the name given to the practice of commemorating the death of Christ on the day of Passover, the 14th of Nisan according to biblical dating, on whatever day of the week it occurs.
There are a few Christian groups that still celebrate the Jewish Passover - which is specifically regarding the Passover of the Angel of Death. Some of these groups are Assemblies of Yahweh, Messianic Jews, and some congregations of the Church of God (Seventh Day). The third in this list should not be confused with the Seventh Day Adventist church.
Practice of Passover sacrifice by Temple Mount activists in Jerusalem, 2012.. The Passover sacrifice (Hebrew: קרבן פסח, romanized: Qorban Pesaḥ), also known as the Paschal lamb or the Passover lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates the Israelites to ritually slaughter on the evening of Passover, and eat lamb on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo.
The story of Passover is told in the Book of Exodus in the Torah—the body of Jewish religious teachings. According to the Hebrew Bible, God instructed Moses to take his people (the Israelites ...
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šālōš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles ...
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The Jewish holiday of Passover, commemorating the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, begins Monday and lasts until April 30. For many, the holiday is a reminder of the Jewish ...
The next day (the day now celebrated as Holy Thursday), Jesus' disciples ask him where they should go to prepare the Passover meal. Passover is the celebration of God "passing over" the houses of the Israelite slaves but killing the firstborn son of every Egyptian house in Exodus 12:29 during the Ten Plagues. It was celebrated in tandem with ...