Passover

The Passover Holiday is celebrated every year during the Spring, and commemorates the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. The holiday recounts the hardships that the Israelites had experienced, and a sense of bitterness and sorrow is evoked through the consumption of symbolic foods such as bitter herbs which symbolize the harshness of slavery which they had endured. In contrast, through the recitation of miraculous stories and events, including the 10 plagues, those who celebrate Passover come to appreciate their own freedom and independence. The holiday is appropriately situated during the Spring as a means of illustrating Passover's theme of rebirth and new beginnings. The traditional Passover meal has been practiced in essentially the same way for over two thousand years, and the "Last Supper" which Jesus had celebrated along with his 12 Disciples was in fact their Passover meal.