Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover — the annual Passover pilgrimage is the background for the only story from Jesus' childhood in the canonical Gospels. Every year communicates the faithfulness of the family's observance: this is not a one-time exceptional journey but the regular practice of a Torah-observant Jewish household. The Passover festival is the central celebration of Israel's identity — the annual re-enactment of the Exodus liberation.

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