Why is Passover called “Passover?”

According to the Torah, the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt. In order to convince Pharaoh, the Egyptian king, to let them go, God sent 10 terrible plagues—the Nile turned to blood, frogs roamed the land, lice infested everything, and worse—that made the country unliveable.

But before the final plague—the killing of every Egyptian first born—the Jews had to do something: they were told to slaughter a lamb, which had religious significance in ancient Egypt, and to wipe its blood on the doorposts of their homes.

In other words, the Jews had to do something bold and audacious that told the world, “We are Jewish. We are not afraid.”

That night, when God smote the Egyptians, He saw the blood on the Jewish homes and passed over them, allowing their first-borns to live.

Did you catch that? God didn’t just save the Jewish people, He made them assert their identity first, to out themselves as Jews. And that idea is woven into the essence of the holiday, which is hinted at in the name.

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