Magic Numbers
Number 4 is used how many times during Passover?
Name them:
Four Cups of Wine
Four Questions
Four Sons
Four Seasons
Four holidays: Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, and Succoth
Four Directions “Seeing in 360 degrees”
What does CHAROSET represent?
The Mortar that our forefathers used to build in Egypt.
In what book of the Torah is the Passover story told?
Exodus
Who was Moses' spokesman to Pharaoh? And Why?
Aaron (Moses' brother)
Why is the holiday of Passover called "Pesach" in Hebrew?
Pesach, which means to "skip," "omit," or "pass over". Traditionally the name is believed to have originated with God "passing over" the homes of the Jews when he was killing the firstborn sons of Egypt.
How many plagues did God create?
10
Duality of freedom and slavery is represented by what?
Hillel sandwich (named for Rabbi Hillel, a sage who lived in the first century C.E)
Sandwich of :
Matzah represents our hurried escape from Egypt and the dryness of the desert.
The bitter herbs of Maror remind us of the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.
Charoset, the sweetness of redemption.
A small green bush wrapped in orange flames that did not harm the bush.
Where God first 'appeared' to Moses.
Who was Batya?
Pharaoh's daughter
What is the Hebrew word for 'bitter herb'?
Maror
What is 430?
The number of years of slavery, counting from the birth of Isaac.
At the table Spring represented by:..
Karpas
On what Hebrew date does Passover begin?
The 15th of Nissan
Who are the four sons we read about in the Haggadah?
The wise, the wicked, the simple and the one who doesn't know how to ask.
What is the category of food called which is prohibited on Pesach in Hebrew?
Chametz
What is 600,000?
The number of male Israelite between then ages of 20 and 60 that left Egypt.
Whose special Kiddish cup placed in the center of the Seder Table?
Elijah's cup, the prophet of hope and happy endings.
What body of water opened for the Jews to allow safe passage?
Red Sea
This name does not appear once in the Haggadah but I went several time to Pharaoh.
Moses
What does the word "SEDER" literally mean?
order, procedure
26?
26 is the gematric number, being the sum of the Hebrew characters (Hebrew: יהוה) being the name of the god of Israel – YHWH (Yehowah).
Most stable isotope .
What is a symbol of Afikoman ?
Ultimate redemption from suffering, which comes at the end of the Seder;
Some see it as a reference to the Passover sacrifice that used to be offered at the ancient temple in Jerusalem;
Some see it as a reminder that the poor must always set something aside for the next meal
The Torah says to celebrate Passover for seven days.
Why do we celebrate it for 8 days?
Jews in the Diaspora lived too far away from Israel to receive word as to when to begin their observances and an additional day of celebration was added to be on the safe side
Who was pharaoh when Moses was in Egypt?
Ramses II (c. 1304–c. 1237).
What is the meaning of Beitzah?
A hard-boiled.
Symbol of mourning and grief over the destruction of the Temple