Festival facts: Pesach

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What is Pesach?

Pesach, or Passover, is the oldest and greatest Jewish festival. Essentially a spring time, family festival, lasting seven or eight days, it is central to Jewish identity and faith. It takes place on the 15th day of the Jewish month Nissan (between 15 March and 30 April). While it marks the beginning of the harvest, this is of less importance than the history that is the focus of the celebrations. The festival ceremonies recall the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and symbolise the struggle of the Jewish people to be released from bondage, to find their own land and to find freedom.