The Passover Seder

The Passover Seder

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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The Passover Seder Passover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the Exodus, the liberation of the Jewish people from servitude in Egypt. At the beginning of the holiday, Jews traditionally perform the seder (a Hebrew word meaning “order”), an elaborate ritual meal during which participants recite an ancient text called the Haggadah. Classically, the seder was practiced as a home-based ritual focused on teaching children about the Exodus narrative. Key elements of the seder, such as its emphasis on question-based dialogue, the drinking of wine, and the custom of reclining, are based on the symposium, an ancient Greek social institution. Greek symposium