Passover 2021 began March 27 in the evening of Saturday, and ends in the evening of Sunday, April 4th. Most seders (meals of remembrance) took place after sunset on March 27th or March 28th. Some Jewish groups had seders on both nights. A book or pamphlet called the Haggadah is the script for the memorial service during the meal.

The seder commemorates the night when God sent a plague against the Egyptians’ firstborn sons, sparring only those who marked their door with lamb’s blood. (Messianic Jews see the lamb’s blood as a symbol of the Messiah Jesus.) After this plague, the last of ten plagues, Pharaoh finally agreed to free the Jewish slaves. African Americans see Passover and the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land as symbolic of their own journey from slavery to freedom.

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