APRIL 13/NISSAN 15

חג פסח כשר ושמח

Year unknown:

According to tradition, Sarah was brought to the house of Pharaoh (Genesis 12:15).

2018 (1743 BCE):

According to tradition, God made a covenant with Avram in which the Land of Israel was bequeathed to his descendants as their eternal heritage, but only after they experience exile and persecution. "And He said to Avram: 'Know surely that your descendants shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved to them, and they will afflict them four hundred years... and afterwards they shall come out with great wealth.' On that day G-d made a covenant with Avram, saying: 'To your seed I have given these lands, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates'" (Genesis 15:13-18).

2047 (1713 BCE):

According to Seder Olam 5, on the 3rd day following his circumcision at age 99, angels appeared to inform Avraham that a son would be born to Sarah in exactly a year (Genesis 18:10)—and Sarah became the first person in history recorded as laughing.