![]() Only those who were circumcised and clean before the Law might participate, and they were forbidden to have leavened food in their possession during the act of slaughtering the Passover lamb. Each family or society offered one animal together, which did not require the semikah (laying on of hands), although it was obligatory to determine who were to take part in the sacrifice that the slaughtering might take place with the proper intentions. The sacrificial animal, which was either a lamb or goat, had to be a male, one year old, and without blemish. The following is a brief summary of the principal ordinances and of the ritual accompanying the sacrifice: During this time there was a definite ritual for the offering, in addition to the regulations prescribed by the Law. In fact, the bringing of the Passover sacrifice resumed only after the Israelites had taken possession of the land, and then the sacrifice was made annually until during the times when Solomon's Temple and the Second Temple stood and functioned. ![]() For the next 39 years there was no offering, according to Rashi, as God stipulated that it could only be offered after the Children of Israel had entered the Land of Israel. 9:1–3, JPS translation Rabbinical interpretation Īccording to Rashi, on Numbers 9:1, only once during their forty years of wandering in the wilderness, one year after the Exodus, was the sacrifice offered. The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, on the first new moon of the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, saying: Let the Israelite people offer the passover sacrifice at its set time: you shall offer it on the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, at its set time you shall offer it in accordance with all its rites and rules In the pre-exilic period, however, Passover was rarely sacrificed in accordance with the legal prescriptions (comp. This so-called "Pesaḥ Dorot," the Passover of succeeding generations (Mishnah Pesach l.c.), differs in many respects from the Passover of Egypt (Pesaḥ Miẓrayim). ![]() Exodus 12:25 "It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service (NKJV). It was further ordained ( Exodus 12:24-27) that this observance should be repeated annually for all time once the Israelites entered into their promised land. In the Mishnah this is called the "Passover of Egypt" ( Pesaḥ Miẓrayim in M. In the Torah, the blood of this sacrifice painted on the door-posts of the Israelites was to be a sign to God, when passing through the land to slay the first-born of the Egyptians that night, that he should pass by the houses of the Israelites ( Exodus 12:1–28). Although practiced by Jews in ancient times, the sacrifice is today only part of Beta Israel, Karaite and Samaritan observance. According to the Torah, it was first offered on the night of the Exodus from Egypt. ![]() ![]() The Passover sacrifice ( Hebrew: קרבן פסח, romanized: Qorban Pesaḥ), also known as the Paschal lamb or the Passover lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates the Israelites to ritually slaughter on the evening of Passover, and eat on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. Ancient Jewish practice Practice of Passover sacrifice by Temple Mount activists in Jerusalem, 2012. ![]()
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