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Introduction
Source : Jewish Tradition

Like in most Jewish holidays there is going to be a lot of candles and wine drinking so let's start by saying a blessing for the candles and wine.

Light all the candles and pour all the wine, including two cups for the profit Elijah and Moses' sister Miriam.

Candle Blessing:

Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Yom Tov.

Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has sanctified us with laws and commanded us to light the festival lights.

Wine Blessing:

Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.

We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.

Finish your first drink.

Take a moment for the spirit of Elijah and Miriam to drink their drinks.

Karpas
Source : Jewish Tradition

Now we shall dip parsley in salt water. The parsley represents the sweetness of life and the salt water represents the tears of the suffering. Let us take a moment to think about all those oppressed and suffering around the world.

Yachatz
Source : Jewish Tradition

Everyone breaks off and eats a piece of matzah.

We eat matzah in memory of the quick flight of our ancestors from Egypt. As slaves, they had faced many false starts before finally being let go. So when the word of their freedom came, they took whatever dough they had and ran with it before it had the chance to rise, leaving it looking something like matzah.

Maggid - Beginning
Source : Jewish Tradition

Us Jews like to talk and ask questions. So instead of just telling the story of Passover like a lecture we learn about the events through questions and discussions.

-- Four Questions
Source : Jewish Tradition

Four questions: Why is this night different from all other nights?

On all other nights, we eat chameitz and matzah. Why on this night, only matzah?
On all other nights, we eat all vegetables. Why, on this night, maror? (Everyone eats the maror)
On all other nights, we don't dip even once. Why on this night do we dip twice? (We have another round of parsley and slat water)
On all other nights, we eat either sitting upright or reclining. Why on this night do we all recline?

Answers:
1. When we left Egypt, we were in a hurry. There was no time for making decent bread.
2. Life was bitter, like horseradish.
3. Why not someone else take a stab at this one.
4. We are free now.

-- Four Questions

Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot?  
How is this night different from all other nights?

Sheb'chol haleilot anu ochlin chametz umatzah, halailah hazeh, kuloh matzah.
On all other nights, we eat chameitz and matzah. Why on this night, only matzah?

Sheb'chol haleilot anu ochlin sh'ar y'rakot, halailah hazeh, maror.
On all other nights, we eat all vegetables. Why, on this night, maror?

Sheb'chol haleilot ein anu matbilin afilu pa'am echat; halailah hazeh, sh'tei f'amim.
On all other nights, we don't dip even once. Why on this night do we dip twice?

Sheb'chol haleilot anu ochlin bein yoshvin uvein m'subin; halailah hazeh, kulanu m'subin.
On all other nights, we eat either sitting upright or reclining. Why on this night do we all recline?

-- Exodus Story
Source : Jewish Tradition

A long time ago in a land far far away...

Jews were enslaved in Egypt under an evil Pharaoh. Moses has a hallucination where he realizes it is his mission to demand the slaves be freed and lead them out of Egypt. He tells the Pharaoh to "LET MY PEOPLE GO!" When the Pharaoh refused, 10 plagues were brought down upon the Egyptians. Moses led the slaves out of Egypt, crossing the Red Sea at low tied. The Jews wandered the desert for 40 years before finding the torah and that land of Israel.

-- Ten Plagues
Source : Jewish Tradition

Blood

Frogs

Lice

Beasts

Cattle disease

Boils

Hail

Locusts

Darkness

Death of the Firstborn

Can anyone at the table come up with interesting scientific explanations for the plagues?

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu
Source : Jewish Tradition

Let us take a moment to be grateful for being freed, finding the Torah, and finding a new home. Had only one of these things happened, that would have been enough.

Rachtzah
Source : Jewish Tradition

Now let us recognize the other objects on the Seder plate.

The shank bone represents the special lamb sacrifice made in the days of the Temple for the Passover holiday. It is called the pesach, from the Hebrew word meaning “to pass over.” Lamb blood was used to mark the houses that were skipped by the plagues.

One day a Rabbi said that "a woman has just as much business reading from the Haggadot as an orange has on a Seder plate." So now we put an orange on the Seder plate.

This concludes the Seder. Now we eat! Yay!

Maror

Marror is bitter herbs. May I eat this Marror and renew my ability to feel and be moved by what is bitter in my life and in the world. May I not repress it or flinch from it. May I feel clearly where there is wrong in order to do my part to right it. 

Charoset is a mixture of apples, nuts, wine and spices made into a paste. It symbolizes the mortar that our ancestors used to build the pyramids. The sweet taste of the Charoset also reminds us that in the most bitter of times of slavery, our people have always remembered the sweet taste of freedom. 

Shulchan Oreich

Let's eat!

Standing on the parted shores of history

We still believe what we were taught

Before ever we stood at Sinai’s foot;

That wherever we go, it is eternally Egypt;

That there is a better place, a promised land;

That the winding way to that promise passes through the wilderness;

That there is no way to get from here to there

Except by joining hands and marching together. 

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