When did the Passover sacrifice be slaughtered? Beginning or End of the 14th?

Question

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I am looking for literature on the Internet.

(1) About the time which should slaughter the Passover sacrifice, is Jews' view divided now?

(2) About it, was view of Jewish Karaite changed in the past?

(3) Is there any detailed description about the Passover of Jesus era? (except for the Bible).

Please tell me the link of the site that is appropriate for these questions. Thank you for your cooperation.

Answer 1

Judaism is not divided on the issue.

The details of the Passover practice are very very clear and available.



We've been doing the process every year from the last night we spent in Egypt.

When we were no longer able to sacrifice, we replaced it with study of the process.



The sacrifice was done on the eve of the Passover -- in the afternoon of the 14th.

It is eaten on the Seder - on that same evening (which, by Jewish reconing is the 15th)



Karaite Judaism was a splinter group that began a few hundred years after the destruction of the temple



Without getting into detailed Jewish scholarly materials,

you can get a good feel for what the Seder (the festival meal) was like in the Roman period from the stories in the Haggadah (the pamphlet for running the Seder in the post-Temple era).



Bottom line --

discuss at length the redemption from Egyptian exile

eat a wrap of soft Matzah, with lamb (the sacrifice), and lettuce

have four cups of wine





For answers to questions regarding Jewish practice -

try

www.chabad.org

for articles and literature

or

www.askmoses.com for online chats and email



There is a group focused on setting up the temple and bringing the sacrifices

They hold an educational "practice Passover sacrifice" every year about a week before Passover on a mountain overlooking the Temple.

The Temple Institute

http://www.templeinstitute.org/



You can also look on the Hadassah magazine archives for a wonderful photo essay of the Samaritan Passover sacrifce.



Note - when asking questions on Jewish forums, it is more effective to ask "in the Roman occupation period"

rather than "at the time of Jesus" seeing as Jews are kinda iffy on the whole Jesus thing.

Answer 2

Exodus 12: 6 says the original lamb for a passover sacrifice was slaughtered at dusk, I believe the Samaritans (the few that are left) still do that. However, while verse 14 says this will be a perpetual feast, there is no specification as to when the animal should be slaughtered, but only when it should be eaten (in the evening.)



Chabad org or Ask Moses (another Chabad site) is a wonderful source for questions like that

Answer 3

Actually Exodus 12:6 says "bain ha erevim" or between the evenings. Artscroll translates this as "afternoon". My understanding is that this is a reference to the time between Mincha and Ma'ariv which could put it anywhere from a half hour after noon until nightfall.



( The same phrase "bain ha erevim" also appears in Leviticus 23.)