Passover Traditions
The significance of the four cups of wine drunk during the Passover Seder.
What are the promises of redemption, deliverance, liberation, and salvation?
This traditional Passover song begins with the words "Ma Nishtana."
What is The Four Questions
This unleavened bread is traditionally eaten during Passover.
What is Matzah?
This item on the Seder plate symbolizes the bitter experience of slavery.
What is Maror (bitter herbs)?
This is the name of the holiday that celebrates the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt.
What is Passover
This is what the word "Seder" means in Hebrew.
What is Order (referring to the order of rituals and readings during the Seder)?
This popular Passover song celebrates God's redemption of the Jewish people.
What is "Dayenu"?
The significance of avoiding leavened bread during Passover.
What is the quick departure of the Israelites from Egypt, leaving no time for their bread to rise?
This item on the Seder plate represents the mortar used by the Israelites when they were slaves in Egypt.
What is Charoset?
He was the leader of the Israelites during the Exodus from Egypt.
Who is Moses?
This is the purpose of the "Dayenu" song sung during the Seder.
What is gratitude for each part of God's saving actions during the Exodus?
The Hebrew phrase "Chad Gadya" means this in English.
What is One Little Goat?
This vegetable is dipped in saltwater during the Seder to symbolize tears shed during slavery.
What is Karpas (usually parsley or another green vegetable)?
This is the symbolic significance of the roasted egg on the Seder plate.
What is the cycle of life?
These are the Ten Plagues that God inflicted upon Egypt according to the Passover story.
What are water turning to blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn?
This is why we have an extra cup of wine set aside for the prophet Elijah during the Seder.
What is the hopeful anticipation of Elijah heralding the coming of the Messiah?
This popular Passover song is based on a traditional Hebrew poem called "Chad Gadya."
What is "One Little Goat" (Chad Gadya)?
This sweet mixture represents mortar on the Seder plate.
What is Charoset?
This item on the Seder plate symbolizes the festival sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.
What is the Shank bone?
This is how the Israelites protected themselves from the final plague, the death of the firstborn.
How did they protect themselves by marking their doorposts with lamb's blood?
This is the significance of opening the door for Elijah during the Seder.
What does it symbolize as openness to the coming of the Messiah and redemption?
This is the title of the song that concludes the Passover Seder, celebrating the hope for next year's Seder in Jerusalem.
What is "L'shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim" (Next Year in Jerusalem)?
This type of food is forbidden to eat during Passover due to its leavened nature. Answer in Hebrew
What is Chametz (including bread, cake, cookies, and other leavened products)?
This green vegetable (Karpas) on the Seder plate represents this.
What is the coming of spring and renewal?
This is the body of water that the Israelites crossed during the Exodus from Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?