Passover Foods
The most commonly known Passover food
What is Matzah?
This is the ingredient you are supposed to avoid during the week of Passover
What is yeast?
This was the first plague
What is Blood?
This number appears most frequently in the Haggadah.
What is four? (4 questions, 4 sons, 4 cups of wine.
You may experience this after a week of eating matzah
What is constipation?
The Maccabeats Nirtzah
The Hebrew and English names for what we dip twice into saltwater
What is Karpas / parsley or celery?
You do this on a chair during Passover
What is recline or lean?
This is the name of Moses' mother.
Who is Yocheved?
The title of this favorite Passover song means "It would have been enough!" in Hebrew.
What is Dayeinu?
What's the missing word? It's kind disappointing when your _______ falls during Passover
What is birthday?
Echad Mi Yodea
This fish, prepared differently depending on your geographic roots, is traditionally served as the first or second course of the Passover meal.
What is gefilte fish? German Jews made it from pike. Polish Jews used carp or whitefish. British Jews used saltwater fish like cod or haddock. Southern Poland and northern Ukraine served a sweetened fish, since sugar beets were plentiful there. Lithuanian gefilte fish was heavy on the pepper. Russia and Belarus used beets for a pink-tinged fish and broth.
You are supposed to empty this from your house before Passover begins.
What are bread/leavened products/chametz?
This is the name of the woman whose well was the source of water that followed the Israelites for 40 years because of her merit.
Who is Miriam?
This made the plague of hail extra miraculous.
What is the hail was on fire?
There was "flaming fire amid the hail" (Exodus 9:24). Rashi describes this as a double-miracle: Not only did the fire and ice exist simultaneously, but the fire shot downward. The fire-and-ice represents the idea that even natural adversaries can join together, when they share a common goal of serving God. (Rashi quoting the Midrash.)
Who we should invite to our seder
Who are all the people that have nowhere to celebrate the seder?
The Maccabeats Dayenu
This is the name for the middle matzah
What is the afikomen?
We celebrate Passover for this many days.
What are 7 days?
After the Israelites escaped the Egyptians, crossed the Red Sea and marched to freedom, it took them this many years to arrive in the Promised Land.
What are 40 years?
Approximately this many Jews were living in Egypt prior to the Ten Plagues.
Approximately 600,000 Jewish men
The longest part of the seder
What is the story/maggid
Chad Gadyo, One Little Goat, Azi Schwartz
Many families add this new item to their seder plate today.
What is an Orange? An orange is placed on the Passover seder plate to symbolize the inclusion and fruitfulness of LGBTQ+ Jews and other marginalized voices within the Jewish community.
This is the number of seders we have outside of Israel
What is 2?
What is the name of Pharoah's daughter who rescues Moses from the Nile?
Who is Batya?
The final day of Passover celebrates this.
What is the arrival to and parting of the Red Sea?
The number of times we dip our finger into the wine/grape juice
What is ten times?
Seder songs with Theo Bikel