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I love life. I love dialogue, sometimes loneliness, and sometimes and noise. I love taste of a frost, coffee, tears. I love the sun, a rain and clouds. I love black and white (as a life) I Love sweet and bitter to laugh, cry. I love a life, and it is even more to take pleasure in each lived Minute!!! I like to live, safely looking forward, I like to go against the stream, And let river of time so quickly flows, I shall manage to overcome all the doubts. Destroying on a way, I shall pass all barrier, And let to overcome so much pains it was necessary, I shall achieve the desired award, Insuperable barrier were not yet! In me it is a lot of force, strength of mind is alive, To dream still I has not forgot, In fact the hope blind has not died, Though also my boat about rocks was broke... I shall love, where is alive, I shall dream, while stars burn, In fact in my heart it is so much fire, In fact my heart still is able to forgive!!!
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Passover
Passover (Hebrew, Yiddish: פֶּסַח, Pesach, Tiberian: pɛsaħ, Israeli: Pesah, Pesakh) is a Jewish and Samaritan holy day and festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the liberation of the Israelites from slavery. It is also known as Festival of the Unleavened Bread (חַג הַמַּצּוֹת, ħaɣ ham:asʕ:oθ, "Chag/Khag Hamatzot/s"). [1]
Passover begins on the 15th day of the month of Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, in accordance with the Hebrew Bible.[2] The Exodus of the Jews from Egypt took place in the spring and so Passover must be celebrated in the spring.
In Israel, Passover is a seven-day holiday, with the first and last days observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work, special prayer services, and holiday meals; the intervening days are known as Chol HaMoed ("festival days"). While modern Israeli Jews observe a seven-day holiday wherever they are, Diaspora Jews historically observed the festival for eight days, and most still do - the exceptions usually being found among Reform and Reconstructionst Jews. The reason for this extra day is not known. It is thought by many scholars that Jews outside of Israel could not be certain if their local calendars fully conformed to practice of the temple at Jerusalem, so they added an extra day. But as this practice only attaches to certain (major) holy days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies could not be certain on which day to attack.[3]
Many Jews observe the positive Torah commandment of eating matzo on the first night of Passover at the Passover Seder, as well as the Torah prohibition against eating chametz - certain leavening and fermenting agents, and things made with them, such as yeast breads, certain types of cake and biscuit, and certain alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages - but wine is an essential component of Passover, notwithstanding it is a fermented, yeast-bearing beverage. Karaite Jews are not bound by the oral law, under which "chametz" includes not only leavening agents but the grains from which bread is commonly made.
Specifically, five grains, and products made from them, may not be used during Passover - wheat, rye, barley, oats, and spelt - except for making matzo, which must be made from one of these five grains. This is because the oral law decrees they begin to ferment within 18 minutes of contact with water. So, despite pasta not being a leavened product, macaroni products cannot be owned or used during Passover under this interpretation of Jewish Law. Ashkenazic rabbinical tradition also forbids the use of rice, most legumes and new world grains like maize (unknown to the old world when the Bible was written), because they might be made into bread (such as cornbread). Sephardic and other rabbinical traditions do not have this prohibition
Together with Sukkot ("Tabernacles") and Shavuot ("Pentecost"), Passover is one of the three pilgrim festivals (Shloshet Ha'Regalim) during which the entire Jewish populace historically made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Samaritans still make this pilgrimage to Mount Gerizim, but only men participate in public worship
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