The object I used was the online version of my family's celebration of Passover. This major Jewish holiday commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt and the sparing of the firstborn Israelites on the eve of the Exodus. In the story of passover, before the final plague, God instructs Aaron and Moses to warn the Israelites to smear the blood of a sacrificed lamb on the front of their house so it would be “passed over”. The holiday typically lasts a week, beginning on the 15th and ending on the 21st or the 22nd day of the month of Nisan in the Jewish calendar. During this week, you are prohibited from eating unleavened bread, and the only grain product allowed is matzah. During the first two nights, families come together for a meal called sedar. Typically around April every year, my family members would meet at someone's home. The purpose was to worship together and share a meal (sedar), whether that be in Pennsylvania, where my grandfather now lives, or New York, where he grew up. The meal would have to accommodate around fifteen to twenty family members. Passover has been celebrated by the Jewish members of my family every year for generations. My family, including those who are not Jewish, uses Passover as a way to remember our heritage and connect back to it. Passover connects to my identity because it allows me to learn the culture of where I came from and feel pride in myself and my ancestors. 


 

– ME

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