The Torah commands that at least four symbolic cups of wine be consumed during the Passover seder. There may also be one or two extra kiddish cups at your table: One is a cup of wine for the prophet Elijah whose spirit visits on passover. On the chairs, you may see pillows. This is because on Passover you are supposed to recline at the table as a symbol of being free.
There is even a specific section of the seder called the four questions, where the youngest person at the table asks about the different Passover symbols and the elders explain. In addition to eating the foods represented on the seder plate with the exception of lamb, which is not eaten a Passover meal — that breaks up the two halves of the seder — is served. Traditional dishes include matzo ball soup , gefilte fish, beef brisket, chicken and potatoes. More traditional Jews will completely clean out any foods containing chametz from their home.
This has to do with the story of Passover: After the killing of the first born, the Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go.
But in their haste to leave Egypt, the Israelites could not let their bread rise and so they brought unleavened bread. To commemorate this, Jews do not eat leavened bread for eight days. Any bread-like substance cakes, dumplings, etc. If you want to bring something for the host, pick up an item from the kosher for Passover section of your supermarket, or stick to a bottle of kosher wine or flowers. Contact us at letters time.
By Sarah Gray. Related Stories. The lamb bone represents the blood of the lamb that adorned the doors of the Jewish people as God passed over them; the roasted hard-boiled egg is a symbol of mourning; the maror bitter herbs represents the bitterness the Jews had to endure as slaves; the charoset a sweet, brown concoction represents the mortar used to build the Egyptian pyramids; and the dipping of parsley into salt water represents the tears of the enslaved Jewish people.
It is traditionally viewed as the bread of the poor, and is therefore consumed to remind Jewish people of the hardships their ancestors endured. For seven or eight days after the first Seder night, Jewish people abstain from eating all sorts of leavened foods including bread, cakes and muffins.
During the Seder night, many Jewish children play a game in which one piece of matzah, called the afikoman, is hidden. The child who finds the afikoman at the end of the meal wins a prize. Some grains and other foods, such as beans, peas, corns, rice, chickpeas and sesame, are traditionally prohibited by some Jewish people during Passover. These are known as kitniyot.
However, many Sephardic Jews - Jewish people who can trace their ancestry back to the Iberian Peninsula during the early Middle Ages - continue to eat kitniyot on Passover. As leavened goods are banned during the festival, the weeks leading up to Passover are traditionally spent cleaning.
Every nook and cranny is scrubbed to get rid of even the tiniest forbidden crumb that might lurk there. Some say this tradition is the origin of the more widely known " spring clean ". Many Jewish people use crockery during Passover that has been set aside for especially for the festival. Passover is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar. It's an eight-day festival seven days for Reform Jews and Jews in Israel celebrated in the early spring, starting on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan.
The 14th day of Nisan begins on the night of the first full moon after the vernal equinox. On the Gregorian calendar, Nisan usually falls in March or April. This year, Passover will start on April 19, The story goes like this, according to the Old Testament: After generations of backbreaking labor and unbearable horrors at the hands of the Egyptian people, God saw the Israelites' distress.
But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed God's command. God then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops. At the stroke of midnight of the 15th day of Nisan, God sent the last of the 10 plagues to the Egyptians, killing their firstborn. However, he spared the Children of Israel, "passing over" their homes hence the name of the holiday.
Pharaoh's resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. Led by Moses, an estimated , men, plus many more women and children, began the trek to Mount Sinai. Seven days later, the Red Sea parted and they left Egypt. Orthodox Jews living outside Israel celebrate an extra day due to the doubt as to which day is actually the start of the holiday. Traditionally, that decision was made at the Temple of Jerusalem, and the news had to travel far to reach them.
Reform Jews and Jews living in Israel do not celebrate the extra day.
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