Why is Passover a month after Easter this year?

Question

Why is Passover a month after Easter this year?

Answer 1

they are unrelated holidays. there is no reason they should occur at the same time.

Answer 2

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Summarization based on "calendars" - Lunar, Solar

Prior to approximately 325CE Passover and Easter were coincidental on the same Lunar calendar.



Summarized major reasons "Why" Pesach (Passover) is a month after Easter this year.



1. First Council of Nicaea (325 CE) keep Easter on a Sunday of Julian (Solar) calendar.



2. Pope Gregory XIII (1582 CE) reconstructed calendar to include "leap (Solar) year".



3. Pope Gregory revised "Easter tables":

--Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first "ecclesiastical" full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;

--this particular "ecclesiastical" full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and

--the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.



4. Passover OT Commandment observance: Exodus 12:16 "In the first [month (Lunar)], on the fourteenth day of the month. . "



Note: Lunar month begins at first observable appearance of moon immediately following "new (dark) moon".



5. OT also Commandands: Deuteronomy 16:1: "Guard the month of spring, and make [then] the Passover offering."



6. "Month" (Lunar) is defined by OT Commandment: Exodus12:2 "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. . ."



7. Lunar calendar is approximately eleven days shorter than Solar calendar. The Sanhedrin (Jewish Eccliastical Supreme Court) constantly adjusted the calendar to ensure that Nissan (7th month), the month of the holiday of Passover, always fell during the spring season. This is accomplished through thirteen-month "leap years" which were added to the calendar approximately once every three years. During these years, a second month of Adar was added to the calendar.



No Sanhedrin stands today for approximately 1,950 years and the calendar has been astronomically fixed for 7 "leap years" on a 19 year cycle.

Answer 3

Although the first Easter happened to take place during Passover, the method of calculating their dates are completely different.



Passover starts the 14th day of the Hebrew month Nisan.



Easter's date is much more complicated:

Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;

* this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and

* the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.

Answer 4

Because Passover and the Western Easter are two totally different things. Its the Eastern Easter that follows the Jewish holiday Pesach.

Answer 5

That's how the calender is. Passover dates don't follow the Secular calender so its on different days. But what does Easter have to do with Passover. They are two different holidays.

Answer 6

Bluemonster has it acceptable. Passover isn't 'meant to be in the previous easter" in actuality it has no longer something to do with easter. It purely occurs to many times coincide It falls on the comparable day in the Jewish Calender each twelve months and because that's a leap twelve months that's plenty later. The Jewish Calender has a leap month fairly of a leap day. that is all performed in accordance to the moon's cycle

Answer 7

Easter and passover are completely two different days celebrated differently in their origins and their purposes are very different.

Easter is Ishtar, (Semiramis, widow of Nimrod, mother of Tammuz) the bare breasted pagan fertility goddess of the east. Legend has it that she came out of heaven in a giant egg, landing in the Euphrates river at sunrise on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox, busted out, and turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit. The priest of Easter would then sacrifice infants (human babies) and take the eggs of Easter and die them in the blood of the sacrificed infants (human babies). The Easter eggs would hatch on December 25th, the same day her son Tammuz the reincarnate sun-god would be born...how convenient! Hence the changing of dates depending on "new moon".Absolutely pagan!!

But passover is cebrated on the same day since the passover night when the Isrealites were leaving Egypt. This was carried out by killing lambs and smearing the blood on their door posts (thresholds) for the salvationn of those inside the house. More like the shedding of the blood at the cross by our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of all who believe.

Answer 8

The Eastern Christian Easter (Pascha) is April 27th, the Sunday after the Jewish Passover.



The Eastern and Western Churches started using different calendars hundreds of years ago, and they don't always line up together.



"Pascha" is Greek for "Passover," from Hebrew "Pesach", and it's the same word for both the Christian Pascha (Easter), and the Jewish Pascha (Passover).





Hope this helps.

Answer 9

I found the answers to this question really interesting. And was pretty astounded at how many people think Passover and Easter have nothing to do with each other. The Last Supper was a seder meal. Jesus Christ was Jewish and so were his apostles.

Answer 10

Actually the first Passover was eaten on the 14th day of Abib the first month God gave to the Jews

the calendar has been changed to the Babylonian times and names



http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=Abib&version1=9&searchtype=all&wholewordsonly=yes&bookset=1



the name Easter is taken from Ashteroth-goddess of fertility

we celebrate Passover-Communion

Answer 11

Different calendars.



In 2008, Easter will be on Sunday, March 23.



Catholics and most Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to calculate the date of Easter.



Passover is calculated using the ancient Jewish lunar calendar.



For more information, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.html



The time of Easter is based on the cycles of the moon, the equinox, and seasons and things in nature.



In simple (?) terms Easter occurs on the first Sunday following the first full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox (the first day of spring).



In 2008 the vernal equinox will be on Thursday, March 20. The first full moon after that will be Friday, March 21. Thus, Easter will be on Sunday, March 23.



The earliest Easter can be is March 22 as it was last in 1818 and will be next in 2285.



The latest Easter can be is April 25 as it was last in 1943 and will be next in 2038.



With love in Christ.

Answer 12

Well 1, they have nothing to do with each other. if you are reffering to the fact that they are gennarlly around the same time then it is this:

It is a leap year in the jewish calender. Instead of just adding one day like the 2008 calender we add another whole month. So the month of nisan (when pesach is) is 30 days later than usual.

Answer 13

I didn't know that. I just celebrated Ash Wednesday, then the saints......i dint know but passover comes before Easter Sunday. I think 2 weeks before it. Now you got me confused.

Passover, the era of Moses and the Exodus,

Easter, the era of Christ and his Resurrection.

Answer 14

All Jewish holidays are on a lunar calendar so the dates always move. Easter is somewhat related to the lunar calendar, the only Christian holiday to do so. There is more info here: http://geography.about.com/library/misc/uceaster.htm

Answer 15

just the way the calender is for the Jewish people will there calender time for Passover

Answer 16

Because Jews use a lunar calendar.

Answer 17

because easter is the same day every year ....passover follows the hebew calendar....so therefore they are seporate!

Answer 18

uh... jewish and american calendars are opposite and its different every year

Answer 19

because they have nothing to do with each other