Traditions and Origins
During Passover, families gather for this special meal that includes storytelling and symbolic foods.
What is the Seder?
To fast means to not do this.
What is eat?
This animal is commonly associated with Easter and is said to deliver baskets of candy and eggs.
What is the Easter Bunny?
Though the dates vary, Easter and Passover always take place during this season of the year.
What is spring?
Passover celebrates the Israelites being freed from slavery in this ancient land.
What is Egypt?
At the Seder, the youngest person traditionally asks a set of questions known as these. They are about why the night is different from other nights.
What are the 4 Questions?
These vitamin-rich dried fruits are how many Muslims get a quick boost before or after fasting during Ramadan, in keeping with Muhammad’s example.
What are dates?
This special dish holds symbolic foods used during the Passover meal.
What is a Sedar plate?
Jesus celebrated this Jewish holiday with his followers not long before the crucifixion.
What is Passover?
Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead on this number of days after his death, which is celebrated as Easter.
What is three?
This book is used during the Passover seder to guide the rituals and tell the story of the xodus of the Jews from Egypt.
What is Hagaddah?
These colorful treats representing new life are often filled with candy and are hidden for children during Easter celebrations.
What are Easter eggs?
This symbol. often seen during Easter, represents the crucifixion of Jesus.
What is the cross?
Both Passover and Easter involve themes of freedom and new life. Passover celebrates freedom from slavery, while Easter celebrates freedom from this.
What is sin/death?
This sacred day, not long before Easter Sunday, commemorates the day Jesus Christ was crucified.
What is Easter Friday?
Easter is the celebration of this event, believed to have occurred three days after Jesus’ crucifixion.
What is the resurrection/ Jesus/ rising from the dead?
This roasted bone placed on the seder plate represents the Passover sacrifice.
At the Seder, children search for AFikomen, which is a piece of this.
What is matzah?
Both Passover and Easter are based on important events from their traditions. What do both holidays encourage people to do about these events?
What is reflect upon them?
This important figure in Judaism led the Israelites, and is central to the Passover story.
Who is Moses?
This devotional practice in many churches during the Easter season reflects on the moments leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion.
What are the Stations of the Cross?
This symbolic food, eaten during Passover, represents the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.
What are bitter herbs (maror)?
The end of Ramadan’s fast is marked by this festive day.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
In Christian belief, Jesus is often compared to this sacrificial animal from the Passover story.
What is a lamb?
Ramadan is this number month in the Islamic calendar.
What is 9th?