What foods are involed in the Jewish Passover Meal?

Question

Well the title says it all really, but i need to know what foods are involved please

Thank you

Answer 1

Slavery and freedom

The rituals and symbolic foods associated with the Seder evoke the twin themes of the evening: slavery and freedom. The rendering of time for the Hebrews was that a day began at sunset and ended at sunset. Historically, at the beginning of the 15th of Nisan at sunset in Ancient Egypt, the Jewish people were enslaved to Pharaoh. After the tenth plague struck Egypt at midnight, killing all the first-born sons in the land, Pharaoh let the Hebrew nation go, effectively making them freedmen for the second half of the night.



Thus, Seder participants recall the slavery that reigned during the first half of the night by eating matzo (the "poor man'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). Recalling the freedom of the second half of the night, they eat the matzo (the "bread of freedom" and also the "bread of affliction") and 'afikoman', and drink the four cups of wine, in a reclining position, and dip vegetables into salt water (the dipping being a sign of royalty and freedom, while the salt water recalls the tears the Jews shed during their servitude).





Table set for the beginning of the Passover Seder, including Passover Seder Plate (front center), salt water, three shmurah matzot (rear center), and bottles of kosher wine. A Hebrew language Haggadah sits beside each place setting.

[edit] The Four Cups

There is an obligation to drink four cups of wine (or pure grape juice) during the Seder. The Mishnah says that even the poorest man in Israel has an obligation to drink. Each cup is connected to a different part of the Seder. The first is for Kiddush, the second is for 'Magid', the third is for Birkat Hamazon and the fourth is for Hallel.



The Four Cups represent the four expressions of deliverance promised by God Exodus 6:6-7: "I will bring out," "I will deliver," "I will redeem," and "I will take."



The Vilna Gaon relates the Four Cups to four worlds: this world, the Messianic age, the world at the revival of the dead, and the world to come. The Maharal connects them to the four Matriarchs, Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel, and Leah. (The three matzot, in turn, are connected to the three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.) The Abarbanel relates the cups to the four historical redemptions of the Jewish people: the choosing of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the survival of the Jewish people throughout the exile, and the fourth which will happen at the end of days. Therefore it is very important.





Seder Plate





Traditional arrangement of symbolic foods on a Passover Seder PlateThe Passover Seder Plate (ke'ara) is a special plate containing six symbolic foods used during the Passover Seder. Each of the six items arranged on the plate have special significance to the retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The seventh symbolic item used during the meal—a stack of three matzot—is placed on its own plate on the Seder table.



The six items on the Seder Plate are:



Maror and Chazeret; Two types of bitter herbs, symbolizing the bitterness and harshness of the slavery which the Jews endured in Ancient Egypt. For maror, many people use freshly grated horseradish or whole horseradish root. Chazeret is typically romaine lettuce, whose roots are bitter-tasting. Either the horseradish or romaine lettuce may be eaten in fulfillment of the mitzvah of eating bitter herbs during the Seder.

Charoset; A sweet, brown, pebbly mixture, representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the storehouses of Egypt.

Karpas; A vegetable other than bitter herbs, usually parsley but sometimes something such as celery or cooked potato, which is dipped into salt water (Ashkenazi custom), vinegar (Sephardi custom) or charoset (older custom, still common amongst Yemenite Jews) at the beginning of the Seder.

Z'roa; A roasted shank bone, symbolizing the korban Pesach (Pesach sacrifice), which was a lamb offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and was then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.

Beitzah; A roasted egg, symbolizing the korban chagigah (festival sacrifice) that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and was then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.

Answer 2

Lets get some facts straight. Jewish days start with sundown and continues until the next sundown. The Passover meal, the Seder, is at the beginning of the Day of Passover, that is, in the evening. The slaughter of the lambs, which could only be done at the Temple, was done on the afternoon before the beginning of Passover. So, while there was just enough time between the slaughter of the lambs, some tens of thousands, and the Seder to kill, transport and cook the lamb, they were in two different days. The current format for the Passover Seder is different than the format used when there was a Temple because without a Temple there can be no lamb sacrifice. The problem with the description of the meal in the New Testament, if it is a Passover Seder {Seder refers to the 'order' of the meal and the 'order' of ritual used during the meal], is there is no mention of eating the lamb sacrifice, the most important part of the meal. It makes more sense, based on the facts just pointed out that the description of the Passover Seder as given in the New Testament is done by a gentile who was not very familiar with Jewish ritual and costumes but is trying to give credibility to the story by placing it within a Jewish context.

Answer 3

well you eat matzots, potato starch and theres the seder you eat harrosets you cant have anything with flour

1- no flour

2-olive oil no other kind of oil you can also use cotton oil. you can eat vegetables. meat, sheese everthing but without flour.

go to a jewish libaary and they do sale books on pesah eating laws like what to eat because its a mayor issue also ask some one who is a religious jew or a rabbi they will exspalined everthing to you about what products you can eat in pesach

Answer 4

My mother makes brisket, matzoh ball soup, gefilte fish and flourless chocolate cake. Yum yum.



Don't forget the grape juice and maneschewitz.



Absolutely no flour, bread, grain, bean, rice, corn, or peanut products at all.

Answer 5

matzo

some kinda veggie to dip in the salt water

hard-boiled egg

horseradish

that stuff w/ the apples and wine (sry i forget what it's called at the moment)

wine/grape juice

my fam usually has turkey as the main meal

the guy b4 me pretty much said it all...