QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – FOR ADULTS AND FOR CHILDREN

1. What are the other names of Passover?

2. How long is this holiday?

3. What are the Hebrew dates?

4. What does this phrase refer to: The Intermediate Days?

5. What is the name of the Sabbath preceding Passover?

6. Which name is out of place? Pharaoh, Aaron, Miriam, Moses?

7. Who was Zipporah?

8. What doesn't belong? Frogs, lice, ants, locusts?

9. What was the tenth plague?

10. Name three songs sung during the Seder?

11. What does Haggadah refer to, and what does the word mean?

12. Who is the Fourth Son?

13. What word is out of place? Shankbone, bitter herbs, cheese, salt water.

14. Complete this phrase: "On all other nights we don't dip"

15. Why are four cups of wine poured during the Seder?

 

Answers

1. Z'man Herutenu - Season of our Freedom, and Hag HaMatzot - Festival of the Spring.

2. Passover is celebrated for 8 days; in Israel 7 days.

3. Nisan 15-22.

    1. The Hol Hamoed or the Intermediate Days refers to the period of time between the first two days of Passover and the last two. They are regarded as semi-holidays.
    2. Shabbat HaGadol. "The Great Sabbath". The name probably refers to the phrase, "the great day of the Lord" which occurs in Malachi 3-23 and is read as part of the Haftarah. (Prophetic Reading) that Sabbath morning.

6. Pharaoh is the name out of place. Aaron and Miriam were brother and sister to Moses.

7. Zipporah was Moses' wife.

8. "Ants" does not belong in this list as frogs, lice and locusts were three of the Plagues God sent upon the Egyptians corresponding to the deeds they had perpetrated against the children of Israel.

9. The Tenth Plague was the slaying of the first born sons of the Egyptians.

10. Dayenu, Chad Gadya, Ehad Mi Yodea, Addir Hu.

11. Haggadah meaning "the telling" refers to the book which tells the story of Passover and describes the Seder.

12. The Fourth Son is the "one who does not know enough even to ask".

13. "Cheese" is out of place; the other items refer to symbols used during the Seder.

14. "On all other nights we do not dip even once, but on this night we dip twice."

15. To symbolize the four expressions of liberation which the Bible uses. (Exodus 6:6).