ABSTRACT
In Palestine Passover is a very serious affair. Every house must not only be cleaned and scrubbed, but it must be whitewashed and new sand-floors made where there are no cobbled or marble floors. As Passover falls in Spring, and the weather is warm and generally dry, everything in the houses is carried out of doors. Clothes are hung up to air and be sunned on clothes-lines, and well shaken in case there may be some crumbs of bread or cake in the seams or linings. Even pockets are turned inside-out for the same reason.
