Disclosure: The author was invited to a paid press trip to DO Montsant in Spain. The contents of this article were not influenced by DO Montsant. I am not an expert in Kosher wines, just someone trying to get an education through a recent winery visit on my trip to DO Montsant.
This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins on March 30th and goes through April 7th, 2018. Briefly, Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, commemorates the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in Ancient Egypt. Not listening to God’s warning to the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free, God placed 10 plagues upon the Egyptians. During the final plague, all of the Egyptians’ first born were killed, but it was said that God passed over the houses of the Israelites, sparing their children, and thus leading to the name “Passover” for the holiday. After these killings, the Israelites were chased out of Egypt, and made their way to Mount
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Sinai and begin their journey as “God’s chosen people”.
It is during this time in the Sinai desert that the requirement that all Jews abide by kosher laws was born. Specifically, Moses wrote the framework for kosher laws in Leviticus 11and Deuteronomy 14, which were taught to the Israelites in the desert and passed down through the generations for thousands of years.
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