Easter

Easter

What is Easter?

Easter is one of the most important Christian celebrations. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus after he was crucified. The week that leads to Easter is called "Holy Week". It is composed by Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday essentially.

Easter and Passover: differences and similarities

The Jewish religion has it's "version" of Easter. It is called "Passover".
Passover and Easter have the same gravity. Both celebrations take place during the spring, but Easter is always celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. The rabbis, in the meantime, understood the verse "You go free on this day, in the month of Aviv" to restrict Passover to early spring, that is in a transitional month when the winter rains end and the weather turns mild. The word "Aviv" actually means "fresh ears of barley". But the great difference between these two celebrations is that Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, while Passover, on the other hand, celebrates the liberation by god of the Jewish people of the slavery in Egypt.

Conclusion

Even if both are very similar in terms of gravity and just a little different in terms of date, Easter and Passover have very different celebration meanings.