The Samaritans use a calendrical system that uses a different method from that current in Rabbinic practice; it sometimes is the same date on the solar calendar, sometimes two days later, and sometimes an entire month later.Reinhold Pummer,The Samaritans, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2016 , pp. 7, 258ff. In 2024, Rabbinical Passover begins at sunset on 22 April. On the calendar used by the Samaritans, 22 April 2024 is also the day of the Passover sacrifice. Karaite and Samaritan Passovers are each one day long followed by the six-day Festival of Unleavened Bread, for a total of seven days.
The Samaritans use a calendrical system that uses a different method from that current in Rabbinic practice; it sometimes is the same date on the solar calendar, sometimes two days? later, and sometimes an entire month later.Reinhold Pummer,The Samaritans, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2016 , pp. 7, 258ff. In 2024, Rabbinical Passover begins at sunset on 22 April. On the calendar used by the Samaritans, 22 April 2024 is also the day of the Passover sacrifice. Karaite and Samaritan Passovers are each one day long follow,ed by the six-day Festival of Unleavened Bread, for a total of seven days.