15 Step Program
What is Kadesh (קדש)?
Apples, nuts, or dried fruit are to bricks as wine is to mortar in this seder plate relish.
What is Charoset?
"What good does freedom do me?" asks this child, and the sequel For Good.
What is Wicked?
A classic Ashkenazi appetizer, that gives "flatbread" some spheroidal dimension.
What are matzah balls?
Two zuzim is the going rate in Aramaic coin for this cat-food favorite.
What is Chad Gadya?
Each step of the seder is a unique action packed with meaning, except for this ritual shared between Urchatz (ורחץ) and Rachtzah (רחצה).
What is washing your hands?
Down south, the new growth of spring allows for parsley and celery. In the frozen north, potatoes are the symbols of choice.
What is Karpas?
The last time this plague hit Egypt was in winter 2025, though not with the fire mentioned in the Torah.
What is hail?
In Persia and Egypt, charoset is often made one this pitted Seven Species mainstay.
What are dates?
With a promise of peace, long life, and eternal reward, there's a lot of promise baked into this song and Pesach farewell.
What is L'Shana Haba'a B'Yerushalayim?
You'll do a lot with "flatbread" on Pesach, but not before you break it apart right now.
What is Yachatz (יחץ)?
Broken backs and beating sun, this is the hardship of the Israelite Slaves.
What is Maror?
Depending on how you count, there may be up to 5 or just 1 of these.
What are questions?
Hallaq is a Persian fruit dish with a biblically long recipe, one ingredient for each year Israelites spent here.
What is the wilderness?
A good start to a lesson in Gematria, or Jewish numerology, would be to ask this titular counting question.
What is Echad Mi Yodea?
Missing! Lost on Pesach, responds to "matzah."
Reward: Your age in dollars, candy, and Tzafun (צפון).
What is the afikomen?
Originally to allow for the "passing-over," lamb's blood on lintels and the paschal sacrifice.
What is z'roah?
What are Rabbis?
Ashkenazim are partial to Matzah Ball Soup, but Italian Sephardim make soup "enough" to match this classic Pesach tune.
What is Dayenu?
Knowing your aleph-bet is vital for this alphabetic acrostic song of praise.
What is Adir Hu?
Had we made the Halakhah in accordance with Shammai, we might not eat this Korech (כורך) appetizer of matzah, maror, and charoset.
What is the Hillel Sandwich?
Spring's renewal, the cyclical year, or even life and death.
What is Beitzah?
Mentioned hundreds of times in the Tanakh, the Haggadah only "happens upon" him once.
Who is Moses?
Masalakhi Mutton and M'Soki are Indian and African takes on this paschal ingredient.
What is lamb?
Scholars, faithful, generals, and angels, all bow to God, for this simple fact and repetitious song.
What is Ki Lo Na'eh?