{"id":33452,"date":"2025-04-15T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33452"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:35:24","slug":"ono-wishes-you-a-happy-passover-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-wishes-you-a-happy-passover-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Wishes You a Happy Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33453 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Passover-4.25.jpg\" alt=\"Information about Passover 2025\" width=\"542\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Passover-4.25.jpg 542w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Passover-4.25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Passover-4.25-218x218.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h3><strong>Ono Wishes You a Happy Passover<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Passover (called the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Torah) is a biblical Jewish holiday, the first of the three pilgrimage festivals. During Temple times, Jews would travel from around the country to mark the festival in Jerusalem.\u00a0 Passover is celebrated for seven days from the 15th to the 21st of the Hebrew month of Nissan.\u00a0 On the first and last days of the holiday there is a prohibition of work, as on the Sabbath, while on the intermediate days, there are fewer religious restrictions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What does the holiday celebrate?<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Passover marks the departure of the children of Israel (in the year 2448 of the Hebrew calendar) from Egypt, going from being slaves to freedom. It is written in the Torah, \u201cAnd you will say, \u2018It is the sacrifice of the God\u2019s passover, for He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Main aspects of the holiday:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eating matzah and telling the story of the Exodus on the first night of the holiday which is Seder night.\u00a0 The custom is to drink four glasses of wine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the period of the Temple, a Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where on the Temple Mount they would offer the Passover sacrifice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Have a happy Passover!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rabbi Moshe Reiss<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Director of Religious Zionism Administration<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Ono Academic College<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passover (called the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Torah) is a biblical Jewish holiday, the first of the three pilgrimage festivals. During Temple times, Jews would travel from around the country to mark the festival in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33453,"menu_order":64,"template":"","class_list":["post-33452","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}