The Seder Plate
Rituals
Plagues According to
Taylor Swift
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Pesach's Greatest Hits
100

The bitter herbs

What is "maror?"
100

Name of the prophet for whom we open the door in the second half of the Seder

Who is Elijah (Eliyahu Ha-Navi)?

100

Plague that completes the following Taylor Swift lyric - Now we got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby, now we got bad <blank> (hey!)

What is blood?

100

Pesach is known as z’man cheiruteinu, meaning “the time/season of our _____.”

What is "freedom/liberation?"

100

According to tradition, next year we hope to celebrate in this city.

What is Jerusalem?

200

Greens for dipping in saltwater

What are "karpas?"

200

On the night before Pesach, what we search for in our homes

What is "Chametz?"

200

The plague from which Austin Swift would be completely safe. 

What is the death of the firstborn?

200

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Rabbis modelled the Pesach Seder after the Greco-Roman symposium.  Type of beverage that was consumed at a symposium.

What is "wine?"
200

If Lisa had fed us chicken matzoh ball soup, and hadn’t prepared matzah crack for dessert, it would have been …

What is "dayeinu?"

300

Symbolises the bricks and mortar of slavery

What is "charoset?'

300

The three things whose significance we have to explain during the Seder in order to fulfil our obligation

What are "pesach," "matza," and "maror?"

300

Tickets for Taylor Swift's Sydney concerts sold out in less than 2 hours.  In an article, author Joanna Guelas used a simile to describe Taylor’s fans, “Like a swarm of hungry <blank>…”

What are locusts?

300

The matzah sandwich, including maror and haroset, is attributed to this rabbi from the 1st century BCE.

Who is Hillel?

300

“Big” number in “One is Hashem” where Sonny and Paul crack up in peals of laughter

What is "Ten are the BIG commandments?"

400

Symbolises God’s outstretched arm which liberated us from slavery in Egypt

What is "zeroa" (shankbone)?

400

Hands are washed twice during the Seder.  The way in which the first handwashing differs from the second handwashing.

What is "no blessing is recited during the first handwashing?"

400

In 2022, scientists released an album including the sounds of these extinction-threatened creatures, hoping that the album would pass Taylor Swift on the top of the ARIA charts.

What are frogs?

400

In the Mishnah, Rabban Gamliel says that “in every generation we are supposed to see ourselves” in this way. 

What is "as if we ourselves were liberated from Egypt?"

400

Building hoped for in Adir Hu.

What is the Third Temple?

500

Symbolises the second sacrifice offered on holidays

What is "beitzah" (egg)?

500

The name of the blessing recited thanking God for bringing us to this time, place, and season and the two places in the Seder where this blessing may be recited). 

What is "shehecheyanu" (after candlelighting and after Kiddush)?

500

Number of songs on the album 1989 (Taylor’s Version) that reference “darkness” 

7 - I Wish You Would, This Love, I Know Places, You are in Love, Say Don't Go, Bad Blood, Sweeter than Fiction
500

We have three pieces of matzah at our Seder.  One piece is lechem o’ni, the Bread of Affliction.  The purpose of the other two pieces of matzah.

What is "on Shabbat and Festivals we use two pieces of bread for the ritual of ha-motzi and on Pesach, matzah is used as our bread just as challah is used on Shabbat and Festivals throughout the year?"

500

Number of mammals that appear in Chad Gadya.

What is 6? (Father, kid/goat, cat, dog, ox, butcher/shocheit).

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