The Jewish community in Moldova and the Jews everywhere celebrate the Pesah (Passover) starting with the evening of April 3. The feast lasts for eight days, until April 11, and symbolizes the spring and the escape of the Jews from Egypt 3,325 years ago, IPN reports.
A communication of the Jewish community in Moldova says this feast reminds about the tragic pages of history, but also about the bright events in the history of the Jewish people. It is a lesson to praise and keep the freedom, to respect the opinions and rights of other people.
Pesah represents a period of cleaning and renewal. The first and last two days of the Pesah, named Seder, are the most important ones. They eat matzo (a type of large, flat, hard bread) on the Seder meal. Products without yeast are eaten in order to commemorate the flat bread eaten by the Jews when they fled Egypt because they didn’t have time to wait for the dough to rise.
The holiday meal must include typical products with a symbolic connotation. The haroset (horse radish) symbolizes the sufferings of slavery. The salty water symbolizes the tears of sorrow and the tears of the joy of freedom. A piece of lamb or sheep bone called Z’roah represents the escape of the Jews from Egypt.
