Jewish Easter

[Kruger]

Does anybody know when Jewish Easter is this year ? Thank you very much.

[kiwi_2005]

Pesach (passover) is when the Jews celebrate easter i know this from my sons mother side, runs from the 15 - 22 march/april:hmm:

Although i could be wrong. Avon will correct this if so.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Pesach (passover) is when the Jews celebrate easter i know this from my sons mother side, runs from the 15 - 22 march/april:hmm:

Although i could be wrong. Avon will correct this if so.

Jews don't celebrate Easter. Period.

The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and according to the 8th century Christian monk and historian Bede are instead related to ancient name for the Saxon goddess, Eostre, who was celebrated during Eosturmonath, equivalent to April/Aprilis [1] [1] Bede wrote in Latin:

"Eosturmonath, qui nunc paschalis mensis interpretatur, quondam a dea illorum quae Eostre vocabatur et cui in illo festa celebrabant nomen habuit."

Translated: "Eosturmonath, which is now interpreted as the paschal month, was formerly named after the goddess Eostre, and has given its name to the festival."

Paganism. Fech!

Passover, on the other hand, begins on the 15th of Nissan (no, not the auto manufacturer!), which this year falls out at sundown Monday April 2.

[bradclark1]

And here I thought it was all about the easter bunny and easter eggs.

[Letum]

Do Jews use the standard calender?
IIRC the standard calender got moved around in the 16th Century so that all dates since then are at least 2 weeks away from what they where before and dates in certain months are all a year out due to the change of the new year date around the same time.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Letum

Do Jews use the standard calender?
IIRC the standard calender got moved around in the 16th Century so that all dates since then are at least 2 weeks away from what they where before and dates in certain months are all a year out due to the change of the new year date around the same time.

Jewish calendar.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and according to the 8th century Christian monk and historian Bede are instead related to ancient name for the Saxon goddess, Eostre, who was celebrated during Eosturmonath, equivalent to April/Aprilis [1] [1] Bede wrote in Latin:

"Eosturmonath, qui nunc paschalis mensis interpretatur, quondam a dea illorum quae Eostre vocabatur et cui in illo festa celebrabant nomen habuit."

Translated: "Eosturmonath, which is now interpreted as the paschal month, was formerly named after the goddess Eostre, and has given its name to the festival."
Paganism. Fech!

Not all christain faiths celebrate easter either, Jehovah Witnesses, dont celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Yrs, Fathers & Mothers day and birthdays.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Jewish calendar.

Thanks!


eii!...."Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year" that's confusing!

Why do they have leap years if the Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year anyway? :hmm:


*edit*

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Not all christian faiths celebrate Easter either, Jehovah Witnesses, don't celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Yrs, Fathers & Mothers day and birthdays.

just for the fun of pedantism:
No Christian Churches celebrate Fathers & Mothers day technically. I don't know about the roots of Father's Day, but we didn't have it when I was young and Mothers day is a derivative of Mothering Sunday which is originally about returning to your "mother Church" and nothing to do with your biological mother. (IIRC, I am no Christian myself)

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

It's always been so tempting to plant one of those on my car's dashboard just for the fun of it. :p

Not all christain faiths celebrate easter either, Jehovah Witnesses, dont celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Yrs, Fathers & Mothers day and birthdays.

Every day is Mother's Day.

Why do they have leap years if the Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year anyway?

To retain a syncronization between solar years and lunar years so that the 4 season fall into a flexible position within the Jewish calendar. So that Passover falls at winter end/spring start, Shavuot (Pentacost) falls out late spring and Succot (Tabernacles) falls out summer end/fall start. The lunar year is shorter than the solar year.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Letum

No Christian Churches celebrate Fathers & Mothers day technically.

Your right. Most christain faiths recognise Fathers/Mothers day, like they allow their children to wish their mum a happy mothers day, but Jehovah Witnesses wont even allow that, cause i am told you only worship one God and celebration should only be for Him.

[Kruger]

I have some relatives in the States, and they are jewish. I just want to know when I should call them...and wish them all the best, stuff like this.

[joea]

In the Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is referred to as Pascha.

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Your right. Most christain faiths recognise Fathers/Mothers day, like they allow their children to wish their mum a happy mothers day, but Jehovah Witnesses wont even allow that, cause i am told you only worship one God and celebration should only be for Him.

Yeah, not even birthdays. It must suck being a kid.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Kruger

I have some relatives in the States, and they are jewish. I just want to know when I should call them...and wish them all the best, stuff like this.

Sunday, April 1, or Monday before sundown. Even the week before is just fine. We're already wishing people here a happy holiday.

Do it right and show off a bit. Wish them a "Chag Sah'mei'ach" (Hebrew, the 2 "ch" sounds are gutteral) or if that's too difficult to pronounce, say "Good Yom Tov" (Yiddish/Hebrew) - all meaning "happy holiday".

Originally Posted by joea

In the Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is referred to as Pascha.

Pascha is Aramaic for Pesach which is Hebrew for Passover in English. Origin:

"I will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and I will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I wreak judgments I, the Lord.

And the blood will be for you for a sign upon the houses where you will be, and I will see the blood and pass over <U'Pasachti> you, and there will be no plague to destroy [you] when I smite the [people of the] land of Egypt."
- Exodus 12:12-13

[Iceman]

Galatians 4

[1] Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
[2] But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
[3] Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
[4] But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
[5] To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
[6] And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
[7] Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
[8] Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
[9] But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
[10] Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
[11] I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
[12] Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
[13] Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
[14] And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
[15] Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
[16] Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
[17] They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
[18] But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
[19] My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
[20] I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
[21] Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
[22] For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
[23] But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
[24] Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
[25] For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
[26] But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
[27] For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
[28] Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
[29] But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
[30] Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
[31] So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

A day of rest and the passover are the only days I recall to be observed by man...and as to the specific day of either I think that is silly, obedience is done in the heart between a man and God.

Jewish Easter ...what a topic lol...