Let's Talk PASSOVER! ｜｜ The Scoop SPECIAL EDITION
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A special episode of The Scoop dedicated to Passover, where I explain some of our traditions and what the holiday is all about. Passover is one of my absolute favorite Jewish holidays, and I'm so excited to share this one with you!
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hello classic crew and welcome to a special edition of the scoop
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if you are new to my channel the scoop is usually our opportunity to go over what went on over the
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course of the week just catch up and hang out and act as if we're grabbing a cup of coffee together
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but today we're doing something a little different i wanted to do an entire episode of the scoop
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dedicated to passover so i am going to be explaining some of our traditions what the
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holiday is about and i'm really excited to share this one with you here on my channel we talk about
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notification bell so grab a cup of coffee or a cup of tea or maybe some iced coffee since we're getting
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into warmer weather and let's get into it so passover is one of my absolute favorite jewish
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holidays it's eight days and the first few days are what we call a yom tov which means a good day
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literally translated but what it really means is that it's very similar to sabbath in that we can't
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use electricity we can't drive and those same days we have at the end of the holiday and in the middle
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we can go to work or whatever else and we're celebrating the jewish exodus from egypt where we
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were enslaved and to commemorate that we only eat unleavened bread matzah and we're not allowed to have
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anything that even remotely comes close to bread so we're not allowed to have any chips or crackers
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or cookies that have any sort of leaven and in hebrew the word pesach which is what we call
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passover in hebrew it comes from the idea that god passed over the jews when god was killing the first
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born on the eve of our emancipation which was one of the ten plagues so i will explain all of that that's
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a lot of information but the story of passover starts with the jews being enslaved in egypt and we
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suffered back-breaking labor and unbearable horrors as slaves and god sent moses to pharaoh saying let
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my people go and pharaoh said no way and then god sent the ten plagues upon egypt and at the end of
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those ten plagues the worst of the ten plagues which was the killing of all of the firstborn in the land
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of egypt pharaoh changed his mind and he allowed the jews to leave the land of egypt and the reason
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that we call pesach which is passover in hebrew passover is because the jews painted the blood
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of a lamb on their door frames so that god would know that they were jews and he would pass over
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them instead of killing the firstborns in those homes now when pharaoh allowed the jews to leave
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egypt we raced out of there so quickly that our bread wasn't even able to rise and that is why we eat
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matzah on this holiday and that's why we don't eat leavened bread and after we left the land of
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egypt we received the torah at mount sinai so as you can see this is an incredibly important holiday
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to the jews it's a really important holiday leading up to us actually becoming jews and accepting the
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torah and becoming god's chosen people and to commemorate the holiday the first two nights of
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passover we do a seder the seder is an opportunity to talk about the story of the jews being emancipated
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from egypt by going through the haggadah which is the book that compiles the story and as we're
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going through it we want the children to ask questions we want to engage with the story as
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if we ourselves are leaving egypt and are being released from the bonds of slavery and it's really
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amazing to do it every single year and to go through it with our families we drink four glasses
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of wine or grape juice we eat quite a bit of matzah we eat bitter herbs there's a bunch of different
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traditions in the seder and the seder itself would be a video that would take a very long time to
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describe i mean usually they start around 7 30 8 pm depending on the year and they go till 12 1 2
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in the morning i mean it is super long but also an incredible experience and going back a little bit
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not only do we not eat leavened bread we also rid our entire houses of it we clean our houses it's
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basically a giant spring cleaning and then we tape off any cabinets that have leavened foods in them
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and we sell them to somebody so that we don't actually own any leavened foods that it's a process
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that is kind of worked through rabbis and we purchase it back afterwards but it's very important to do
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that because the mitzvah the commandment of not eating leavened bread or owning leavened bread
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is one of the most important of passover so that is kind of an overview of passover it's kind of an
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overview of what we do on this holiday and it's one of my favorite holidays it's a holiday that we
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spend with my family every year and it's an opportunity for me to explore this incredible
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story of our nation and to reconnect with god every year of course we reconnect with god through
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all of the jewish holidays but this one is it's really unique and i absolutely love it for that
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so if you have any more questions make sure to leave them in the comments below and i will try
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to respond to as many as i can again i want to be clear i'm not an expert i'm not a rabbi i just
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know this from having practiced it for many years so that doesn't make me the end-all be-all of all
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answers i will answer as best as i can but i'd also love to know in the comments something about easter
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if you celebrate because i don't know that much about easter and i know that it's a really important
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holiday for christians so thank you guys so much for watching today's video please subscribe to my
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