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[traveler]

Since Karyn-Sue has been so wonderful teaching about some of our Jewish traditions, I have offered to continue this with a few challenges themed on my favorite Jewish holiday, Passover, which will occur this month, starting on Saturday night April 12. 

A lot of the information I am providing has been taken form the following website:
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passove ... -Short.htm.

On Passover, we celebrate how God took the Jewish People (Israelites) out of Egypt, where they had been enslaved by Pharaoh. With Moses as His representative, God brought 10 plagues upon the Egyptians until they agreed to send the Jews from their land.When we read the Haggadah at the Seder meal, we retell this story to our children, who will one day retell it to their children. Also known as the story of Exodus, it is recorded in the Bible. Many of you may be familiar with the story as it is in the book of Exodus in the Bible and depicted in the movie "The Ten Commandments".

As with every Jewish holiday, the celebration follows guidelines from the religion but every family interprets it a little differently.The Seder is the Passover feast that includes reading the book called "Haggadah," drinking four cups of wine, telling stories, eating special foods, singing, and other Passover traditions. As per Biblical command, the Seder dinner is held after nightfall on the first night of Passover (and possibly a second night if you live outside of Israel), which is the anniversary of the miraculous exodus from Egyptian slavery more than 3,000 years ago.
One of the most important parts of the Seder is the retelling of the Passover story. We use a book called the Haggadah to guide us through the telling of the story and the rituals (which I will describe in the next challenge). 

For this challenge, I want you to tell a story that is important to your family or culture. Create a layout that either tells the story in the journaling or talks about the telling of the story.  In the brief summary of the Passover story above, we mentioned 10 plagues and 10 commandments. Therefore, you must use 10 of something on your layout. 

Rules:
1. Create a new layout or journal page (paper or digital) that tells a story or talks about the telling of a story; and use 10 of something somewhere on your page.
2. You may combine with one other challenge that allows combining plus any monthly, team, or cumulative challenges (the normal rules). You may not combine with another Passover challenge.
3. One entry per person
4. Due April 30th at midnight. 
5. One entry randomly chosen will win a $5 ACOT gift card from me.



 

[Amy Jo]

Great challenge! Thank you for the Passover lessons; I'm enjoying learning more details about Jewish holidays!

[VickiR]

Thanks for this challenge Louise!  Exodus, I remember is the second book of the Bible.  When I was in Bible School as a child, we learned the books of the Bible in order.  For some reason, they still stick in my mind but can't tell you what I did last evening!  LOL!

[Jolly Holly Scraps]

I love the story of Exodus, but I didn't know that Passover was such an important holiday for my Jewish friends- thank you for sharing this knowledge with us, Louise! Personally, it means a LOT to me that you're sharing these aspects of your Faith with us!
(I mentioned this to Karyn Sue before, but I grew up with a lot of questions about different faiths, ESPECIALLY Judaism, that didn't always get answered! I think when I was young I may have offended some kids, but I was simply curious! At one point I had a stepdad who slightly followed Judaism but he didn't share much of that knowledge with me, unfortunately! Of course, it NEVER occurred to me that my mom had some answers!)
I digress! JUST, thank you!!!

[Art_Teacher]

I love that you are sharing this, teaching us something, and giving us a challenge!  I do have an unrelated question, though…when I was a pre-teen, I read hundreds of books from our local library, and one of them was about a Jewish family, where the book described the Seder meal, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember what the book was.  The heroine was a young girl, and the family had several siblings.  I just can’t remember, but it stuck with me over time about the Seder customs and I remembered it from your description.  Any idea what it was?

[traveler]

I love that you are sharing this, teaching us something, and giving us a challenge!  I do have an unrelated question, though…when I was a pre-teen, I read hundreds of books from our local library, and one of them was about a Jewish family, where the book described the Seder meal, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember what the book was.  The heroine was a young girl, and the family had several siblings.  I just can’t remember, but it stuck with me over time about the Seder customs and I remembered it from your description.  Any idea what it was?

I may have read it. But, no clue what it is.

[Art_Teacher]

I love that you are sharing this, teaching us something, and giving us a challenge!  I do have an unrelated question, though…when I was a pre-teen, I read hundreds of books from our local library, and one of them was about a Jewish family, where the book described the Seder meal, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember what the book was.  The heroine was a young girl, and the family had several siblings.  I just can’t remember, but it stuck with me over time about the Seder customs and I remembered it from your description.  Any idea what it was?

I may have read it. But, no clue what it is. 

Me, either. I tried to research it but didn't come up with anything. I just know I borrowed it from our local library...used to get 10 books (the limit they would allow) every 2 weeks, and then I would read them all in one week. lol  I remember I liked the book and learned a lot about Jewish customs from it.