16 Facts About Seder

Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.

The Seder is a ritual involving a retelling of the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt, taken from the Book of Exodus in the Jewish Torah.

Seder customs include telling the story, discussing the story, drinking four cups of wine, eating matza, partaking of symbolic foods, and reclining in celebration of freedom.

The Seder is among the most commonly celebrated Jewish rituals, performed by Jews all over the world.

The Seder is integral to Jewish faith and identity: as explained in the Haggadah, if not for divine intervention and the Exodus, the Jewish people would still be slaves in Egypt.

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Therefore, the Seder is an occasion for praise and thanksgiving and for re-dedication to the idea of liberation.

Furthermore, the words and rituals of the Seder are a primary vehicle for the transmission of the Jewish faith from grandparent to child, and from one generation to the next.

At the head of the table is a Seder plate containing various symbolic foods that will be eaten or pointed out during the course of the Seder.

Traditionally, each participant at the Seder table recites the Haggadah in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

Special Passover Seder plate is the special plate containing symbolic foods used during the Passover Seder.

Order and procedures of the Seder are stated and printed in the text of the Passover Haggadah, a copy of which is in front of all participants.

Afikoman, which was hidden earlier in the Seder, is traditionally the last morsel of food eaten by participants in the Seder.

Seder concludes with a prayer that the night's service be accepted.

Group of people who hold a Passover Seder together is referred to in the Talmud as a chavurah.

The first of these, the Freedom Seder, was written by Arthur Waskow, published in Ramparts magazine and in a small booklet by the Micah Press and in a later edition by Holt-Rinehart-Winston, and was actually performed on April 4,1969, the first anniversary of the death of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people wish to participate in a shared Seder but are unable to be physically together, technology such as videoconferencing software can be used to facilitate a "virtual" Seder.