An egg is one of the components of a traditional Seder plate, a traditional centerpiece of the Passover meal.

The Jews of Jesus ' day expected Elijah to come before the Messiah ; indeed, some modern Jews continue to await Elijah's coming as well, as in the Cup of Elijah the Prophet in the Passover Seder.

In 1941, the faculty illustrated its distaste with Kaplan by penning a unanimous letter to the professor of homiletics, expressing complete disgust with Kaplan's The New Haggadah for the Passover Seder.

Matzo is eaten by Jews as an obligation during the Passover Seder meal ; during the rest of the holiday its consumption is optional, though customary, as only unleavened bread may be eaten.

Another view is that, since the Hebrew term for egg matzah is matzah ashirah (, literally, " enriched matzah " or " rich matzah "), it cannot be used to fulfill the requirement of eating matzah at the Passover Seder.

In subsequent years, during the existence of the Tabernacle and later the Temple in Jerusalem, the Passover offering ( Hebrew korban Pesach ) was eaten during the Passover Seder on the 15th of Nisan.

The Seder Korban Pesach, a set of scriptural and Rabbinic passages dealing with the Passover sacrifice, is customarily recited during or after the Mincha ( afternoon prayer ) service on the 14th on Nisan.

The story of the Korban Pesach is also retold at the Passover Seder, meaning order, and the symbolic food which represents it on the Seder Plate is usually a roasted lamb shankbone or chicken wing.

Today, in the absence of the Temple, the mitzvah of the Korban Pesach is memorialized in the Seder Korban Pesach, recited in the afternoon of Nisan 14, and in the form of symbolic food placed on the Passover Seder Plate, which is usually a roasted shankbone.

Matzo may be made by machine or by hand ; the latter type of matzo, called shmura matzo (" watched " or " guarded " matzo ), is the bread of preference for the Passover Seder in Orthodox Jewish communities.

Consequently the eating of matzo figures prominently in the Passover Seder.

Table set for the Passover Seder

* Passover Seder

* Passover Seder Plate

Many Unitarian Universalist churches celebrate observances associated with other religious traditions, including Buddhist-style meditation groups, Jewish Seder, Yom Kipur and Passover dinners, iftaar meals ( marking the breaking of Ramadan fast for Muslims ), and Christmas Eve / Winter Solstice services.

Roman Catholic and some Protestant Christians consume unleavened bread during the Christian liturgy when they celebrate the Eucharist, a rite derived from the narrative of the Last Supper when Jesus broke bread with his disciples, perhaps during a Passover Seder.

Table set for the Passover Seder

The Passover Seder (, " order, arrangement "; Yiddish: Seyder ) is a Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Seder customs include drinking four cups of wine, eating matza, partaking of symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate, and reclining in celebration of freedom.

The tradition of hiding easter eggs for children to find is also similar to another Passover tradition, whereby the head of the household hides a piece of matza ( the " afikomen ") during the meal.

According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper.

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

Hence, Mark's explicit claim that the Last Supper was a Passover meal is contraindicated by his statement that Joseph of Arimathea bought a shroud for Jesus on Good Friday ; which would not have been possible if it were a festival day.

The Passover meal itself would then have been eaten on the Friday evening ( i. e. the next day in Jewish terms ), which would also have been a Sabbath.

In the Synoptic accounts, the Last Supper is a Passover meal, and so Jesus's trial and crucifixion must have taken place during the night time and following afternoon of the festival itself, the 15th of Nisan.

* 2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

Kosher for Passover cakes and cookies are made with matzah meal or a finer variety called " cake meal ", which gives them a denser texture than ordinary baked foods made with flour.

The biblical regulations pertaining to the original Passover also include how the meal is to be eaten: " with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand ; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the's passover " ( Exodus 12: 11 ).

According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper.

Jesus sent only John and Peter into the city to make the preparation for the final Passover meal ( the Last Supper ).

For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava ( a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal ) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they are intended to accompany.

A meal a few days before Passover.

Jesus is then crucified, according to Mark, at the third hour ( 9 AM ) the morning after the Passover meal, but according to John he is handed over to be crucified at the sixth hour ( noon ) the day before the Passover meal, though many resolve this by saying that the Synoptics use Jewish time, and that John uses Roman time.

During the Jewish holiday of Passover in 2002, Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya held its traditional annual Passover seder ( festive religious meal ) for its 250 guests, in the hotel dining room located at the ground floor of the hotel.

Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola sold in the U. S. around the Jewish holiday also uses sucrose rather than HFCS and is also highly sought after by people who prefer the original taste.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

The Greek word Πάσχα and hence the Latin form Pascha is derived from Hebrew Pesach () meaning the festival of Passover.

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

One interpretation of the Gospel of John is that Jesus, as the Passover lamb, was crucified at roughly the same time as the Passover lambs were being slain in the temple, on the afternoon of Nisan 14.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

This means that it is a lunation later than Jewish Passover in two years out of nineteen, years 8 and 19 of the Christian cycle.

Furthermore, because the Julian calendar's lunar age is now about four to five days behind the mean lunations, Julian Easter always follows the start of Passover.

The supposed " after Passover " rule is called the Zonaras proviso, after Joannes Zonaras, the Byzantine canon lawyer who may have been the first to formulate it.

Moses explains the meaning of the Passover: it is for Israel's salvation from Egypt, so that the Israelites will not be required to sacrifice their own sons, but to redeem them.

In Judaism, Elijah's name is invoked at the weekly Havdalah ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and Elijah is invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover seder and the Brit milah ( ritual circumcision ).

The Biblical mandate for the celebrations of Passover is in 23: 4-7:

A Hebrew translation of the song is a common element in the Passover seder in Israel.

There is a broad disagreement over chronology between Matthew, Mark and Luke on one hand and John on the other: all four agree that Jesus ' public ministry began with an encounter with John the Baptist, but Matthew, Mark and Luke follow this with an account of teaching and healing in Galilee, then a trip to Jerusalem where there is an incident in the Temple, climaxing with the crucifixion on the day of the Passover holiday.

At the start of his ministry Jesus is in Jerusalem for Passover, then he is in Galilee for the following Passover, before going up to Jerusalem again for his death at a third Passover.