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Judaism is easily recognized as the monotheist religion from which came Christianity and Islam. If Christians celebrate Christmas, which is also considered as a Christianized pagan tradition, and if Muslims go to Mecca at least once in their lives for pilgrimage, Jews celebrate the passover.

I don’t really have a deep knowledge of the Passover except that when the Jews were still slaves in Egypt, the firstborn child of each family was saved by YWH from the Angel of Death because of the blood of a first-born lamb on the doorposts of the Jews’ houses. When the first-born children of the Egyptians died, the Pharaoh released the Jewish people. Since then, Jews were celebrating the Passover.

Incidentally, the Christian sacrament of Communion was derived from the Passover because Jesus practiced it with his disciples right before he was arrested and then crucified. Perhaps that is the reason why the Passover is celebrated almost coincidentally with the Lenten season of Christians.

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