Important Terms
Dates and Time of Year
Seder Parts
Passover Story
100
The meaning of Pesach in English.
What is 'to pass over'?
100
The number of days Passover lasts.
What are eight days (seven in Israel)?
100
The first part of the passover seder in which you recite a blessing over wine.
What is the Kaddesh?
100
The name of the man who split the Red Sea with his staff.
What is Moses?
200
The small slice of onion, boiled potato or sprigs of parsley on the seder plate.
What is the Karpas?
200
The book of Torah that the Passover story is in.
What is Exodus?
200
The item children search for during the Tzafun (eleventh part of seder).
What is the Afikomen?
200
The Pharaoh's daughter's initial activity before finding Moses in the Nile.
What is bathing?
300
The Hebrew term for 'seder plate'.
What is the Hebrew word 'Ka’arah'?
300
The Hebrew month Passover takes place in.
What is the Hebrew month Nissan?
300
The number of the seder part in which the festive meal is eaten.
What is the tenth part of the seder?
300
Moses's decision when God initially asks him to go to Pharaoh and demand: "Let My people go, so that they may serve Me."
What is objecting?
400
The reminder that the term 'pesach' gives us as Jews.
What is God’s promise to "pass over” the Jewish people when he sent the last plague onto Egypt?
400
The reason why the Passover dates in the Jewish calendar remain the same every year, whereas the dates in the English calendar vary.
What is the fact that the Jewish calendar is lunar and the English calendar is not?
400
The part of the seder in which the retelling of the Pesach story occurs.
What is the Maggid?
400
The names of Moses's parents.
What are Jocheved and Levite Amram?
500
The different names for pesach and their meanings (at least two must be mentioned).
What is Chag haMatzot (festival of matzot), Z'man Cheruteinu (time of our freedom), Chag haAviv (festival of spring), and Ta’anit B’Chorim (fast of the first born)?
500
The term for the four days in the middle of the festival and their English meaning.
What is Chol Hamo’ed (weekdays of the festival)?
500
The number of parts the entire seder has and their Hebrew names (at least three must be mentioned).
What are fifteen parts: Kaddesh, Urechatz, Karpas, Yachatz, Maggid, Rachtzah, Motzi, Matzah, Maror, Korekh, Shulchan Orekh, Tzafun, Barekh, Hallel, and Nirtzah
500
The number of months Moses was hidden by his parents (before putting him in the Nile) and the reason they were able to do this.
What is three months and Mose's early birth?