Religion: Passover

There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed...

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