Show FEAST OR PASSOVER IT IS OVER ANDREWS AGAIN EAT LEAVENED BREAD no regular congregation in ogden but private family services are generally observed the jewish feast of the passover has ended and for the first time in eight days the people of the jewish faith are having an opportunity to taste leavened bread As there ia no regular congregation or place of worship here those of the hebrew faith in ogden do not celebrate the general services during the feasts and holidays designated by their religion as is done in other cities the feast of the passover was in to celebrate the delivery of the jews from their bondage in egypt according to the story in the old testament the egyptians were visited with plague olevery of every description to induce them to agne to the lords people their freedom and as a final and terrible the first born in every egyptian hobe was destroyed in older to make a distinction between the houses of the egyptians and those of the jews and that the destroy ing angel should make no mistake alio houses of the egyptians were marked with blood on the appointed night the destroying angel visited the houses of the egyptians and slew the first born the next day pharaoh relented and not only gave the jews their freedom after years of bondage but drove them out so hastily that they had no time to make alread in the regular manner and BO they mixed alie flour and water and cooked it in the sun for this reason as they marched along alie unleavened bread or matzos as it ii known is eaten by the jews during the feast of the passover on the first two nights the families gather arlund the festive board called the and partake of bitter herbs which are brought as a symbol of the bondage in which they were kept in egypt afterward a piece of lamb an animal worshipped wor shipped by the egyptians is brought to remind them how powerless idols are and how futile is the worship of them then the head of alie family reads out of the book called the II agada the history of the dwelling of alie israelites in egypt and their miraculous deliverance and return to the holy land in accordance with the religious le lief of the jewa that some day they w ill have again a nation and an abiding place they cloe their prayers with the following cords today we celebrate our passover here but the next year we hope to celebrate it in our own land alie chosen land of israel |