(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
1Today was Pesach, a joyful celebration, a day of liberation and redemption.
2But today we were also celebrating the first days of Pesach.
3The Seder meal is at the heart of the Jewish Passover or Pesach festival.
4Jacob Federn had chosen to go hungry rather than eat leavened bread during Pesach.
5This is used as a vinegar during Pesach and to make beet soup, Russian style.
6There hasn't even been an engagement since Belcovitch's eldest daughter betrothed herself to Pesach Weingott.
7As they did every year at Pesach, almost the whole of the Zurich family had gathered together.
8About three weeks before Pesach take twenty pounds of beet-root, which must be thoroughly washed and scraped.
9The bridegroom, who halted a little on one leg, was a tall sallow man named Pesach Weingott.
10Half a block away, I saw Reyzl leaving the print shop and heading home for the Pesach feast.
11Just as they remember that we slaughter little children, always before Pesach, and bake their blood in matzohs.
12Everything's upside down in our house at the moment, if only Pesach weren't coming up... My parents, you know.'
13And there will be an orchestra, too, for Pesach Weingott has promised to play the overture on his fiddle.
14How to set the table for the service of the "Seder" on the eve of Pesach or Passover.
15And Golde -who can count all the things a Jewish housewife has to do, a few days before Pesach?
16Dishes clattered in the kitchen as the everyday plates were put away and the special kosher-for-Pesach set was brought out.