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Pesach Seder
Parts of the Seder
Term | Definition |
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Kadesh | A blessing over the wine in honor of Pesach |
Urchatz | Washing hands without a blessing. |
Karpas | A veggetable is dipped in salt water.. |
Yachatz | The middle matzah is broken and saved to become the Afikoman. |
Magid | The "telling" of the Pesach story. |
Rachtza | Washing hands with a bracha in preparation to eat Matza and food. |
Motzi Matza | Brachot over bread & matza for Pesach |
Maror | Eating bitter herbs to remember the bitterness of slavery |
Korech | The sandwich of Charoset and bitter Herbs to remember how hard we worked buiding Pharoah's buidings. |
Shulchan Orech | DINNER |
Tzafon | Dessert-ish- we eat the Afikoman |
Barech | we say Birkat HaMazon and thank God for the food we ate. |
Hallel | We say Psalms of praise to God |
Nirtza | We close the seder with a wish that next year we can celebrate the holiday in Jerusalem. |