Starts out as a regular day. You can eat bread and drink a beer. The prayers are normal weekday prayers. Late in the morning, we stop eating leavened products and then burn our remaining leavened products. At the same time, we are forbidden to eat unleavened bread – we have to wait until nightfall.

In the afternoon, we start sacrificing our Passover offerings. Because there are millions of people, they start as early as possible, although each offering was shared among several people because it is a sin in the Torah for any of the meat to go to waste (Exodus 12:4).

This entire day is NOT Yom Tov. You can drive, use your phone, etc. See below for the definition of Yom Tov.

If this day is Shabbat, the timeline still holds except we burn the leavened products the day before and just scatter outside (or flush) the leftovers in the late morning.

At night (Jewish days start at night), we have a festive meal that must be eaten in Jerusalem when there is a Temple. The meal........

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