Jewish Holidays
Publisher: Collins
Published: July 5, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780062720085
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; Religious rites & ceremonies; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Holidays - Jewish; Religion / General; General; Judaism - General; Fasts and feasts
First sentence: Passover (Pesah), which celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, begins on the fifteenth of the month of Nisan and continues for seven days, through Nisan 21, though many Diaspora communities celebrate it for eight days (see discussion of the second day of festivals in Appendixes 1 and 2).