The sun sets at 7:36 p.m. today in New Mexico, and that marks the beginning of the eight-day festival known in the Jewish faith as "Pesach" or Passover, celebrating the beginning of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from centuries of slavery in Egypt.

"Passover" refers to the 10th and final plague visited on the hard-hearted Pharaoh who refused Moses' request to let his people go, when the Angel of Death struck down the first-born offspring in Egypt -- except for those whose doorposts were daubed with the blood of a sacrificial lamb.

Those within the home were to eat the lamb and unleavened bread ("matzo") and prepare for the trek into the Wilderness -- a short journey as the crow flies, but one that would last 40 years, according to the Bible account.

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