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? (I'll take bread too)
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. The 4 cups of wine correspond to the 4 terms of redemption that God promised the Jews in Egypt: "I shall take you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I shall save you from their slave labor, I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, I shall take you to Myself as a nation." (Exodus 6:6-7).
You may experience this after a week of eating matzah
What is constipation?
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 sent her baby down the Nile with the hope that he would have a better chance of survival.
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 of bummer when your _______ falls during Passover
What is birthday?
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. The waters of this well were said to have healing and sustaining magical powers.
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?
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.
What is 15 million? The math:
600,000 Jewish men, between the ages of 20-60, left Egypt at the Exodus. + all other males = 1.5 million + females doubles the total to 3 million.
Finally, Rashi (Exodus 13:18, citing the Midrash) says that only 20% of Jews made it out of Egypt, the remainder having died in the plague of darkness. (Apparently those Jews were unwilling to cast their lot with the Jewish people.) If 3 million represents 20% of the Jews, then 100% = 15 million.
The longest part of the seder
What is the story/maggid
Many families add this new item to their seder plate today.
What is an Orange?
1. This is the number of seders we have outside of Israel (everywhere else in the world)
2. This is the number of seders we have in Israel
1. What is 2?
2. What is 1?
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?