Passover

== Related celebrations, sermons, liturgy, and song in other religions ==
* That slaves can go free, and that the future can be better than the present, has inspired a number of religious sermons, prayers, and songs&nbsp;– including [[Spiritual (music)|spirituals]] (what used to be called "Negro Spirituals"), within the African-American community. [[Philip R. Alstat]], known for his fiery rhetoric and powerful oratory skills, [[Philip R. Alstat#Sermons and articles|wrote and spoke in 1939]] about the power of the Passover story during the rise of Nazi persecution and terror:<ref>[[Canadian Jewish Review|''The Canadian Jewish Chronicle'']], March 31, 1939</ref>

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* [[Saint Thomas Christians|Saint Thomas Syrian Christians]] observe [[Maundy Thursday]] as ''Pesaha'', a Malayalam word derived from the Aramaic or Hebrew word for Passover (Pasha, Pesach or Pesah) The tradition of consuming ''[[Pesaha Appam]]'' after the church service is observed by the entire community under the leadership of the head of the family.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nasrani.net/2007/03/25/passover-among-nasrani-syrian-christians-of-kerala |title=NSC Network – Passover |date=March 25, 2007 |publisher=Nasrani.net |access-date=June 16, 2012 |archive-date=June 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608083007/http://nasrani.net/2007/03/25/passover-among-nasrani-syrian-christians-of-kerala |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Weil">Weil, S. (1982)"Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India: The Cananite Christians and Cochin Jews in Kerala". in ''Contributions to Indian Sociology'', 16.</ref>
* The [[Samaritanism|Samaritan religion]] celebrates its own, similar [[Passover (Samaritan holiday)|Passover holiday]], based on the [[Samaritan Pentateuch]].<ref>{{cite web |date=April 19, 2019 |title=The very ancient Passover of one of the smallest religions in the world |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/04/samaritan-passover |access-date=June 8, 2020 |website=Culture |language=en |archive-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712214251/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/04/samaritan-passover |url-status=dead}}</ref> Passover is also celebrated in [[Karaite Judaism]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Faith |date=March 30, 2012 |title=Karaites celebrate Passover strictly from Torah |url=https://jweekly.com/2012/03/30/karaites-celebrate-passover-strictly-from-torah/ |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=J. |language=en-US}}</ref> which rejects the [[Oral Torah]] that characterizes mainstream [[Rabbinic Judaism]], as well as other [[groups claiming affiliation with Israelites]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=KARAITES AND KARAISM – JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9211-karaites-and-karaism |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[Christianity]] celebrates [[Easter]] (not to be confused with the pre-Christian Saxon festival from which it derives its English name).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Er-QZeW12tUC |title=The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |first1=Clemens |last1=Leonhard |year=2012 |access-date=June 14, 2018 |isbn=978-3-11-092781-8 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217061630/https://books.google.com/books?id=Er-QZeW12tUC |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PB-zfFmR0I0C&q=%22Pascha%22+name&pg=PA21|title=The Antenicene Pascha: A Rhetorical History |author=Karl Gerlach |publisher=Peeters Publishers|quote=Long before this controversy, Ex 12 as a story of origins and its ritual expression had been firmly fixed in the Christian imagination.. Ex 12 is thus one of the few reliable guides for tracing the synergism among ritual, text, and kerygma before the Council of Nicaea.|page=21|year=1998 |isbn=978-9042905702 |access-date=October 19, 2020|archive-date=December 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228004322/https://books.google.com/books?id=PB-zfFmR0I0C&q=%22Pascha%22+name&pg=PA21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84USbbs1jfUC&q=Passover+Lamb+Lamb+of+God&pg=PA117|title=The Destroyer and the Lamb: The Relationship Between Angelomorphic and Lamb Christology in the Book of Revelation|publisher=Mohr Siebeck |author=Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann|quote=1.2.2. ''Christ as the Passover Lamb from Exodus'' A number of features throughout Revelation seem to correspond to Exodus 12: The connection of Lamb and Passover, a salvific effect of the Lamb's blood and the punishment of God's (and His people's) opponents from Exodus 12 may possibly be reflected within the settings of the Apocalypse. The concept of Christ as a Passover lamb is generally not unknown in NT or early Christian literature, as can for instance be seen in 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Peter 1:19 or Justin Martyr's writing (''Dial''. 111:3). In the Gospel of John, especially, this connection between Christ and Passover is made very explicit.|isbn=3-16-148778-8|page=117|year=2005|access-date=October 19, 2020|archive-date=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108230624/https://books.google.com/books?id=84USbbs1jfUC&q=Passover+Lamb+Lamb+of+God&pg=PA117|url-status=live}}</ref> The coincidence of Jesus' crucifixion with the Jewish Passover led some early Christians to make a [[False etymology|false etymological association]] between Hebrew ''Pesach'' and Greek ''pascho'' ("suffer").<ref>Reece, Steve, "Passover as 'Passion': A Folk Etymology in Luke 22:15", Biblica (Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium) 100 (2019) 601–610.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2011 |title=The Meaning of Passover {{!}} Chosen People Ministries |url=http://www.chosenpeople.com/main/index.php/holidays-and-festivals/190-the-meaning-of-passover |access-date=April 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708150613/http://www.chosenpeople.com/main/index.php/holidays-and-festivals/190-the-meaning-of-passover |archive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2010 |title=God's Holy Day Plan > United Church of God |url=http://www.ucg.org/litlibrary/holydays.htm |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619131353/http://www.ucg.org/litlibrary/holydays.htm |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Because [[Computus|Easter's date in the calendar]] is related to lunar phases, Easter often falls on the same week as Passover but this is not necessarily the case; for example, the first full moon after the equinox might happen during the month of [[Adar]].
* In [[Islam]], [[Ashura]] commemorates [[Moses]]'s escape from Egypt through two days of fasting on 10th [[Muharram]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fasting in Muharram |url=https://pennyappeal.org/news/fasting-muharram#:~:text=Al%2DTirmidhi%20mentions%20that%20Ibn,his%20moral%20beliefs%20against%20Yazid. |website=Penny Appeal |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 22, 2016 |title=Ashura: A cross-cultural holiday rooted in Abrahamic religions |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/10/22/ashura-a-cross-cultural-holiday-rooted-in-abrahamic-religions |access-date=February 18, 2023 |website=Daily Sabah}}</ref>
* The 2014-published ''The Legislative Themes of Centralization: From Mandate to Demise'' ties Passover to [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] rite, unrelated to [[the Exodus]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Jeffrey G. |last=Audirsch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|title=The Legislative Themes of Centralization: From Mandate to Demise |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |year=2014 |page=108|isbn=978-1-62032-038-9 |access-date=April 23, 2016|archive-date=April 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403034602/https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Bernard M. |last=Levinson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57 |title=Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1997 |pages=57–58 |isbn=978-0-19-535457-7 |access-date=April 23, 2016 |archive-date=April 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403035045/https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Tamara |last=Prosic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BVCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|title=The Development and Symbolism of Passover |publisher=A&C Black |year=2004 |pages=23–27 |isbn=978-0-567-28789-2|access-date=April 23, 2016 |archive-date=April 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403035020/https://books.google.com/books?id=BVCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|url-status=live}}</ref>