Passover Basics
What is the name of the bread we eat during Passover
Matzah
What bitter herb is usually used to represent the bitterness of slavery?
What is Maror?
How do the Four Questions begin in Hebrew (sing)?
What is “Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mi-kol ha-leilot?”
What is Matzah made from?
What is flour and water?
Who was Moses’ sister, known for singing and leading the women in dance after the crossing of the sea?
Who is Miriam?
What is the Hebrew name for Passover?
Pesach
What’s the one item on the seder plate that you don’t actually eat during the seder?
What is the shank bone?
Name three of the Four Sons.
What is the Wise, Wicked, Simple, or the One Who Doesn’t Know How to Ask?
How many minutes must it take or less to bake matza before it starts to rise?
What is 18 minutes?
Who saved baby Moses by placing him in a basket in the Nile?
Who is Yocheved, his mother?
Why do we eat Matzah instead of bread?
What is because the Israelites didn’t have time to let their bread rise when fleeing Egypt?
What does the roasted shank bone represent?
What is the Passover sacrifice? or What is putting the blood of the lamb for the Holy Spirit to pass over
What is the purpose of the Four Questions?
What is to spark curiosity and discussion?
What is the difference between regular matza and shmura matza?
What is that shmura matza is guarded from water contact from the moment the wheat is harvested (not just from when it’s ground)?
Who found baby Moses in the river and raised him in Pharaoh’s palace?
Who is Pharaoh’s daughter? (Also called Bat Pharaoh or sometimes identified as “Bithiah” in Midrash)
What is the difference between how Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews observe Passover dietary laws?
What is Ashkenazi Jews traditionally avoid kitniyot (like rice and legumes), while Sephardi Jews permit them?
What item is not originally part of the biblical commandment but was later added to the seder plate as a symbol of mourning?
What is the roasted egg (beitzah)?
What do we call the special cup of wine that is poured but not drunk, left for a prophet?
What is Elijah’s Cup?
According to tradition, why is matza referred to as the “bread of affliction”?
What is because it reminds us of the suffering in Egypt—simple, humble food like a slave would eat?
Who cleverly suggested to Pharaoh’s daughter that she get a Hebrew woman to nurse Moses?
Who is Miriam?
What is the symbolic meaning of reclining during the seder?
What is to represent freedom and luxury, as free people recline while eating?
Why is it significant that we combine bitter herbs and charoset on matzah (the Hillel sandwich)?
What is to remember how even in suffering (bitterness), there is sweetness, and to follow Hillel’s tradition of combining the elements?
How does the Haggadah use the responses to the Four Sons to teach different educational approaches?
What is that each child is answered in a way that matches their mindset—teaching that we should tailor our explanations to meet people where they are?
Which Jewish group tends to eat only handmade shmura matza during all of Passover, not just at the seder?
Who are Chabad / Hasidic Jews / many Haredi Jews?
According to tradition, how did the courage and faith of women contribute to the Exodus?
What is that the Israelites were redeemed in the merit of righteous women who kept hope alive, encouraged their husbands, and preserved the next generation?