Seder Table & Plate
Inside the Haggadah
Passover Traditions
Passover Songs & Fun Facts
By the Numbers
100

This food is sometimes referred to as "Jewish penicillin".

 

What is Matzah ball soup?

100

This person was not excited to be asked to lead the Israelites.

Who is Moses?

100

This is the name of the book used during the Seder.

What is the Haggadah?

100

This is the name for the blessings said over the wine.

What is Kadesh?

100

This is the number of questions asked at the Seder.

What are Four?

200

This fruit, nut, and wine mixture represents the mortar used by slaves.

What is Charoset?

200

This is the name for the child who does not know how to ask a question.

What is the "Simple" child?

200

This "bread of poverty" is eaten to represent the hasty escape from Egypt.

What is Matzah?

200

This song about a little goat is traditionally sung at the very end of the Seder.

What is Chad Gadya?

200

This is the number of cups of wine (or grape juice) traditionally drunk during the Seder.

What is four?

300

This bitter root is often used as maror (bitter herbs).

What is Horseradish?

300

This phrase means "Enough," and is the title of a popular song.

What is Dayenu?

300

This is the name for the second, optional Seder held by Diaspora Jews. 

What is "Second Passover"?

300

This is the Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning "narrow places".

What is Mitzrayim?

300

This is the maximum number of minutes it must take to bake matzah to ensure it doesn't rise.

What is 18 minutes?

400

This vegetable is dipped in salt water to represent the tears of slavery.

What is Karpas?

400

This is the person who asks "The Four Questions".

Who is the youngest person present?

400

On Passover, we avoid eating this type of food made with leavened grain.

What is Hametz? (Rising food, foods with flour)

400

This piece of matzah is hidden for children to find and is eaten as the final "dessert".

What is the Afikoman?

400

The number of years the Israelites lived in Egypt before the Exodus.


What is 400 years?


500

This roasted bone on the Seder plate symbolizes the Passover sacrifice offered in the Temple.

What is the shank bone (zeroa)?

500

We say “Next year in the rebuilt Jerusalem” at the end of the Seder to express this hope for the future. 



What is the hope for redemption and the rebuilding of the 3rd Templ in Jerusalem?



500

During the Seder, we lean to one side while drinking wine to symbolize this.

What is freedom (or being free people)?

500

This cumulative Passover song counts up from one to thirteen, naming important Jewish concepts along the way.

What is Echad Mi Yodea?

500

The number of days the Israelites are said to have wandered in the desert.

What is 40 years?

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