Passover

Customs & Symbols

Customs

• Removing leaven from the home
  
• Holding a Passover Seder
  
• Retelling the story of the Exodus
  
• Children asking the traditional questions
  
• Reading from the Haggadah
  
• Eating matzah
  
• Eating bitter herbs
  
• Drinking cups of wine or grape juice
  
• Reciting prayers and songs of praise
  
• Remembering the deliverance from Egypt

Symbols

• Matzah
  
• Bitter herbs
  
• Seder plate
  
• Four cups
  
• Haggadah
  
• Passover lamb or shank bone
  
• Salt water
  
• Charoset