Seder plate
The exodus story
Passover Tradition
Symbols & Meanings
Hebrew & Holiday Details
100

This green vegetable, often parsley, is dipped in salt water.


Karpas 

100

This leader brought the Israelites out of Egypt.


Moses 

100

This special meal marks the beginning of Passover.


The Seder 

100

Salt water on the Seder plate represents these.


Tears

100

This Hebrew word means “order” 


Seder

200

This bitter herb, often horseradish, represents the bitterness of slavery.


Maror 

200

This body of water parted to allow the Israelites to escape.


The Red Sea


200

Children search for this hidden piece of matzah after the meal


The Afikomen


200

Matzah symbolizes this quality of the Israelites’ escape.


Haste (leaving quickly)


200

The Hebrew word “Pesach” literally refers to this action God took during the final plague in Egypt.


“Passing over” / sparing the Israelite households


300

This sweet mixture of fruit, nuts, and wine symbolizes mortar used by enslaved Israel


Charoset


300

This is the specific plague that finally convinced Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.


The death of the firstborn


300

This book is read during the Seder and tells the Exodus story.


The Haggadah


300

Reclining during the Seder symbolizes this.


Freedom


300

What is the prayer for washing your hands, recite it

Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al netilat yadayim.”


400

This roasted item represents the Passover sacrifice


Shank bone


400

What was the first plague

Blood

400

This tradition involves asking “Why is this night different from all other nights?”


The Four Questions


400

This prophet is symbolically invited to the Seder with a special cup of wine.


Elijah


400

What does this Hebrew phrase mean

L’shanah haba’ah b’Yerushalayim


Next year in Jerusalem 

500

This item on the Seder plate symbolizes mourning for the destroyed Temple and is also associated with the festival sacrifice.


Beitzah or egg 

500

This mountain is where Moses later received the Torah after the Exodus.


Mount Sinai


500

This specific psalm (or group of psalms) is recited during the latter part of the Seder as songs of praise.


Hallel


500

After leaving Egypt, the Israelites were guided by this phenomenon, which provided light by night and direction by day.


 A pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night


500

The phrase “Ha Lachma Anya,” recited at the start of the Seder, what language is it in


Aramaic

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