Passover Seder

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  • A Passover seder is the feast held by Jewish families on the final evening of the annual Passover holiday. The seder is also a ceremony with specific rituals and festivities throughout the dinner. Most modern Jews hold seders on the first night of Passover, however multiple seders are not uncommon in some traditions.

    The ceremonial seder dinner includes 15 steps and commemorates the freedom of the Jews from slavery and their flight from Egypt.Passover Seder DinnerAish.com: Seder Plate and the 15 Steps

  • Fast Facts

    1. Date: Nisan 15
    2. 2009 Date: April 8th
    3. Based upon the book of Exodus
    4. Much of the seder brings about the themes of change, with the Passover seder seen as different from all other Jewish holidays
    5. There are 15 steps that symbolize the journey to freedomAish.com: Seder Plate and the 15 Steps
    6. Four cups of wine symbolize the four promises of redemption in the story of ExodusPassover Seder Dinner
    7. Leavened bread is restrictedPassover Seder Dinner
  • Seder Plate

    The seder plate has six circles around its circumference with a different ingredient in each section. The six foods on the seder plate are bitter herbs, charoset, a vegetable, a lamb shankbone, an egg, and lettuce.
  • Bitter Herbs

    The herbs represent the bitterness of slavery, the charoset is a sweet paste meant to resemble the bricks and mortar used ceaselessly in Egypt, and the root vegetable represents the physically tiring work of slave labor. To complete the plate, the shank bone represents the lamb sacrificed upon Exodus, the egg symbolizes the Passover holiday offerings, and the lettuce, particularly the bitter stem, is a further representation of the harshness of slavery.
  • 15 StepsAish.com: [http://www.aish.com/passinsight/passinsightdefault/Seder_Plate_-_15_Steps.asp Seder Plate and the 15 Steps]

    1. Sanctify
    2. Clense
    3. Appetizer
    4. Break
    5. Tell
    6. Wash
    7. Bread
    8. Matzah
    9. Bitter
    10. Wrap
    11. Set the Table
    12. Hidden
    13. Bless
    14. Praise
    15. Accepted

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