Celebration (Mar. 27)

We tend to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. There are specific holidays that each individual country will celebrate as well. There are particular religious holidays that one might choose to celebrate depending on what they believe. But why is it that a celebration happens for these particular reasons? In just about every instance there is a strong desire to remember the past and what happened on that particular day. The moments that are being remembered are no small events but rather the things that literally change life as you know it. This is beyond clear if you look at the Jewish tradition and the holidays that they celebrate. With passover in particular there are specific questions that are even supposed to be asked so that the story can be told of how the angel of death passed over the Israelites when they were in Egypt as slaves. This whole idea of telling the story of the celebration is important and too often we tend to forget the things that happen in the past, even as we celebrate them in the present.