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

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

It is the only holiday that centers on home-service, the Seder.

Homes are thoroughly cleaned to ensure no bread or bread by-products remain, and a symbolic burning of the last vestiges of chametz is conducted on the morning of the 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.

During the Seder the third time the matza is eaten it is preceded with the Sefardic rite, " zekher l ’ korban pesach hane ’ ekhal al hasova ".

The Passover Seder meal is full of symbols of salvation, including the opening of the door for Elijah and the closing line, “ Next year in Jerusalem ,” but the use of matzah is the oldest symbol of salvation in the Seder.

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.

This is because such matzah would be considered " rich ", while the matzo eaten at the Seder is called " poor man's bread " ( Hebrew: ) ( Deut.

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.

The afikoman — an integral part of the Seder itself — is used to engage the interest and excitement of the children at the table.

In this same chapter 11 of the Seder Olam, Rabbi Jose stated ( for unknown reasons ) that Israel's time in its land must have lasted an integral number of Jubilee periods.

* Alpert, Rebecca, Like Bread on a Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Columbia University Press, New York, 1997.

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.

In Orthodox Jewish communities, men traditionally gather in groups (" chaburas ") to bake a special version of handmade matzo called " shmura matzo ", or " guarded matzo ", for use at the Seder.

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.

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

While many Jewish holidays revolve around the synagogue, the Seder is conducted in the family home, although communal Seders are also organized by synagogues, schools and community centers, some open to the general public.

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.

Attending a Seder and eating matza on Passover is a widespread custom in the Jewish community, even among those who are not religiously observant.

Thus, Seder participants recall the slavery that reigned during the first half of the night by eating matzo ( the " poor person's bread "), maror ( bitter herbs which symbolize the bitterness of slavery ), and charoset ( a sweet paste representing the mortar which the Jewish slaves used to cement bricks ).

The fifth child can represent the children of the Shoah who did not survive to ask a question or represent Jews who have drifted so far from Jewish life that they do not participate in a Seder.

At this part in the Seder, songs of praise are sung, including the song Dayenu, which proclaims that had God performed any single one of the many deeds performed for the Jewish people, it would have been enough to obligate us to give thanks.

Over time, people came to relate this cup to the notion that Elijah will visit each home on Seder night as a foreshadowing of his future arrival at the end of the days, when he will come to announce the coming of the Jewish Messiah.

The entire order of Hallel which is usually recited in the synagogue on Jewish holidays is also recited at the Seder table, albeit sitting down.

According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in 130 AM.

This date corresponds very well with the biblical and Jewish chronology ( Seder Olam, Josephus, Bar Hebraeus ) but has never been widely accepted by secular authorities.

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, one common interpretation of the practice of having three pieces of matzah on a Seder plate is that they represent " Kohen, Levi and Yisrael " ( i. e., the priests, the tribe of Levi, and all other Jewish people ).

Charles Stith founded an annual Black-Jewish Seder in Boston which inspired many interfaith Seders with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish participants in Boston and nationally.

The earliest post-exilic Jewish chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language, the Seder Olam Rabbah, compiled by Jose ben Halafta in 160 AD, dates the creation of the world to 3751 BC while the later Seder Olam Zutta to 4339 BC.

Breiter wrote several scholarly works, including Seder HaYom (" Order of the Day "), which explains how to apply Rebbe Nachman ’ s teachings to one's daily life, and Sheva Amudei Emunah (" Seven Pillars of Faith "), a primer for developing one's faith.

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.

Each participant receives a copy of the Haggadah, which is often a traditional version: an ancient text that contains the complete Seder service.

In many homes, each participant at the Seder table will recite at least critical parts of the Haggadah in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

Although the 15 orders of the Seder have been complete, the Haggadah concludes with additional songs which further recount the miracles that occurred on this night in Ancient Egypt as well as throughout history.

During the Passover Seder ( the annual commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt ), one re-enacts ancient customs in the Haggadah.

According to art historian Diana L. Linden, the panels ' sequence relates to that of the Haggadah, the Jewish Passover Seder text which follows a narrative of slavery, deliverance and redemption.

The Haggadah (, " telling ") is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder.

Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the Scriptural commandment to each Jew to " tell your son " of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah.

This passage is read with emphasis in the Passover Haggadah and Seder.

The " Freedom Seder " was the first widely published Passover Haggadah that intertwined the archetypal liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Ancient Egypt with more modern liberation struggles such as the Civil Rights Movement and the women's movement.

* The Freedom Seder: A New Haggadah for Passover ( Micah Press, 1969 ; Holt-Rinehart-Winston and Micah Press, 2d edition, 1970 ).

The Haggadah is a very important and popular story in Jewish culture and religion about the departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, which is read every year during the Passover Seder.

The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder.

To quell rumors that the government had sold the Haggadah in order to buy weapons, the president of Bosnia presented the manuscript at a community Seder in 1995.

In the Bird's Head Haggadah ( Germany, c. 1300, now Jerusalem ), the figures wear the hat when sitting to eat the Passover Seder.