Passover

== Notable events on Passover ==
'''Ancient'''
# King Hezekiah was healed and the Assyrian Army defeated by an angel killing 185,000 soldiers<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-17 |title=Pesach and the Miraculous End of the Assyrian Siege of Yerushalayim By Rabbi Chaim Jachter |url=https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/pesach-and-the-miraculous-end-of-the-assyrian-siege-of-yerushalayim-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Kol Torah |language=en-US}}</ref>
# Gideon's victory over Midian and the barley cake dream<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ginzberg |first=Louis |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2882 |title=The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 |date=2001-10-01 |language=English |translator-last=Radin |translator-first=Paul |translator-last2=Szold |translator-first2=Henrietta}}</ref>
# Esther's fast was proclaimed during the Passover. Haman erected the gallows for Mordecai on the first night of the Passover. The same night King Ahasuerus could not sleep and that resulted in the downfall of Haman. <ref name=":0" />
# The war of the Abraham and the four kings when he went to rescue Lot. <ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Ginzberg |first=Louis |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1493 |title=The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 |date=1998-10-01 |language=English |translator-last=Szold |translator-first=Henrietta}}</ref>
# The two angels go to Lot's house and spend the night with Lot. The next morning Sodom is destroyed.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Abraham’s Passover {{!}} Read {{!}} Messiah Online {{!}} FFOZ |url=https://ffoz.org/messiah/articles/god-fearers-abrahams-passover |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=ffoz.org}}</ref>
# Abraham receives visitors and prepares a meal for them. He receives the promise that Sarah will have a child next year.<ref name=":2" />
# Isaac was born on the first day of Passover<ref name=":1" />
# Issac asking Esau to prepare a meal for him so he can bless him.<ref name=":1" />
# King Belshazzar of Babylon made use of the vessels of the temple and was subsequently judged by the handwriting on the wall.<ref name=":0" />
'''Modern Day'''

# 1979 -  Uganda - Judasim was banned by Idi Amin in 1971. On Wednesday April 11th, corresponding to 14 Nisan, 5739, Passover Night the new Government, composed of Ugandan rebels and Tanzanian troupes, declared freedom of worship. And Passover was commemorated.