Classically Abby - Let's Talk PASSOVER! ｜｜ The Scoop SPECIAL EDITION

00:00:00.080 hello classic crew and welcome to a special edition of the scoop

00:00:07.600 if you are new to my channel the scoop is usually our opportunity to go over what went on over the

00:00:12.640 course of the week just catch up and hang out and act as if we're grabbing a cup of coffee together

00:00:17.760 but today we're doing something a little different i wanted to do an entire episode of the scoop

00:00:22.480 dedicated to passover so i am going to be explaining some of our traditions what the

00:00:27.600 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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00:00:48.320 into warmer weather and let's get into it so passover is one of my absolute favorite jewish 1.00

00:00:54.160 holidays it's eight days and the first few days are what we call a yom tov which means a good day 0.57

00:01:00.080 literally translated but what it really means is that it's very similar to sabbath in that we can't

00:01:04.880 use electricity we can't drive and those same days we have at the end of the holiday and in the middle

00:01:10.000 we can go to work or whatever else and we're celebrating the jewish exodus from egypt where we 0.98

00:01:15.840 were enslaved and to commemorate that we only eat unleavened bread matzah and we're not allowed to have

00:01:22.880 anything that even remotely comes close to bread so we're not allowed to have any chips or crackers

00:01:27.680 or cookies that have any sort of leaven and in hebrew the word pesach which is what we call

00:01:32.960 passover in hebrew it comes from the idea that god passed over the jews when god was killing the first

00:01:39.120 born on the eve of our emancipation which was one of the ten plagues so i will explain all of that that's

00:01:45.360 a lot of information but the story of passover starts with the jews being enslaved in egypt and we

00:01:51.200 suffered back-breaking labor and unbearable horrors as slaves and god sent moses to pharaoh saying let

00:01:57.680 my people go and pharaoh said no way and then god sent the ten plagues upon egypt and at the end of

00:02:04.960 those ten plagues the worst of the ten plagues which was the killing of all of the firstborn in the land

00:02:10.000 of egypt pharaoh changed his mind and he allowed the jews to leave the land of egypt and the reason 0.86

00:02:16.560 that we call pesach which is passover in hebrew passover is because the jews painted the blood 1.00

00:02:23.280 of a lamb on their door frames so that god would know that they were jews and he would pass over 1.00

00:02:30.160 them instead of killing the firstborns in those homes now when pharaoh allowed the jews to leave 0.91

00:02:35.920 egypt we raced out of there so quickly that our bread wasn't even able to rise and that is why we eat

00:02:42.720 matzah on this holiday and that's why we don't eat leavened bread and after we left the land of 1.00

00:02:47.920 egypt we received the torah at mount sinai so as you can see this is an incredibly important holiday

00:02:53.760 to the jews it's a really important holiday leading up to us actually becoming jews and accepting the

00:02:59.280 torah and becoming god's chosen people and to commemorate the holiday the first two nights of

00:03:05.120 passover we do a seder the seder is an opportunity to talk about the story of the jews being emancipated

00:03:11.360 from egypt by going through the haggadah which is the book that compiles the story and as we're

00:03:18.160 going through it we want the children to ask questions we want to engage with the story as

00:03:23.600 if we ourselves are leaving egypt and are being released from the bonds of slavery and it's really

00:03:28.720 amazing to do it every single year and to go through it with our families we drink four glasses

00:03:33.920 of wine or grape juice we eat quite a bit of matzah we eat bitter herbs there's a bunch of different

00:03:39.840 traditions in the seder and the seder itself would be a video that would take a very long time to

00:03:44.480 describe i mean usually they start around 7 30 8 pm depending on the year and they go till 12 1 2

00:03:52.320 in the morning i mean it is super long but also an incredible experience and going back a little bit

00:03:58.640 not only do we not eat leavened bread we also rid our entire houses of it we clean our houses it's

00:04:05.200 basically a giant spring cleaning and then we tape off any cabinets that have leavened foods in them

00:04:11.680 and we sell them to somebody so that we don't actually own any leavened foods that it's a process

00:04:17.600 that is kind of worked through rabbis and we purchase it back afterwards but it's very important to do

00:04:23.440 that because the mitzvah the commandment of not eating leavened bread or owning leavened bread

00:04:29.360 is one of the most important of passover so that is kind of an overview of passover it's kind of an

00:04:36.400 overview of what we do on this holiday and it's one of my favorite holidays it's a holiday that we

00:04:41.840 spend with my family every year and it's an opportunity for me to explore this incredible

00:04:48.560 story of our nation and to reconnect with god every year of course we reconnect with god through

00:04:54.800 all of the jewish holidays but this one is it's really unique and i absolutely love it for that

00:05:00.800 so if you have any more questions make sure to leave them in the comments below and i will try

00:05:04.560 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

00:05:10.160 know this from having practiced it for many years so that doesn't make me the end-all be-all of all

00:05:16.560 answers i will answer as best as i can but i'd also love to know in the comments something about easter

00:05:21.360 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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Classically Abby - April 01, 2021

Let's Talk PASSOVER! ｜｜ The Scoop SPECIAL EDITION

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