Passover

the bitterness of slavery

It is possible to get sunflower seeds and products made from sunflower seeds, such as oil, that are hechshered kosher l'Pesach. However, all of these products are considered kitniyot and therefore, the majority of Ashkenazi Jews will not eat them.

Twice! The first two nights are Seders, and you read it once at each one.

Did you mean parsley, rather than lettuce? Parsley dipped in salt water is eaten as a rememberance of the salty tears shed by the Israelites (Though they weren't called that then) because of the hardships endured in Egypt.

Pesach is celebrated with 1 or 2 Passover Sedarim, depending on how religious you are. It also depends where you live if you live in Israel, there is only one Seder for everybody. If you live in the diaspora (outside of Israel) then there two sedarim are celebrated (unless you aren't religious).

During Pesach, no leavened bread may be eaten. On the first and last days of yom tov (see a Jewish calendar) work may not be done. During the internediate days of Of Pesach, called Chol HaMoed, some work may be done. But no writing and washing clothes, among others. The list would be quite long so I will leave it at that

Passover serves to remind Jews of the time that they were held in slavery in Ancient Egypt and how G-d rescued them. While this obviously illustrates the special relationship believed by Jews to exist between them and G-d, it also demonstrates that to try to end slavery must be a good and holy thing to do. As slavery is still very much a part of this world - be it in the form of children forced to perform bonded labour in sweat shops, sex workers smuggled into countries and forced to work in prostitution or any of the myriad forms slavery may take, Passover is every bit as relevant now as it was thousands of years ago. Many Jewish people pass around a tzedakah box during the Passover seder, into which family members and guests place donations which are then given to charities which work to end slavery and help those affected by it - this raises a great deal of cash for these charities each year.

Passover begins on Saturday evening, April 19, with the first Seder.

The last day of Passover in Israel is Saturday April 26, and outside of Israel is Sunday, April 27.

It is unusual for Passover to begin immediately following Shabbat.

Fresh water chestnuts are fine. Canned water chestnuts require a kosher for Passover hechsher.

Noodles that say Kosher for Passover on the box.

No, bulgar is chametz.

Passover celebrates the time when the Hebrews fled from Egypt and Moses led them, chasing after them was Pharaoh's army. Moses then parted the sea to let the Hebrews cross and closed the sea on Pharaoh's army.

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The dish made from apple, nuts, honey, wine, and spices is called charoset. This is the recipe used by Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews usually make a cooked version of charoset that has dates instead of apples.

the story goes that years after Joseph died, a pharaoh came who "didn't know of Joseph" and he felt that the hebrews were multiplying too much and they would begin or join a war against Egypt and defeat them, so he had them enslaved and when that didn't work he had all of the newborn baby boys murdered

when he was alive on earth

It's what we DON'T eat that is significant at Passover; we don't eat any "chametz", or leavened bread products. That includes bread, rolls, pasta, or anything made with wheat flour or grains. The only allowed wheat products are the unleavened bread or "matzoh", or products made from matzoh. For example, matzoh ball soup! Traditional matzoh is made from wheat flour and water, and baked within 15 minutes of adding the water. (Any longer might permit fermentation to begin, which is not allowed during Passover.)

Anything made by yeast or by fermentation of wheat, rye, oats, barley or spelt (a type of Russian winter wheat, also called "groats") is banned. Most Ashkenazic rabbis also ban rice and corn, while many Sephardic authorities permit these as not being proper "grains" mentioned in the Torah.

So beer brewed from barley is chametz, while wine fermented from grapes is allowed during Passover. Whiskey is not allowed, while vodka (made from potatoes) is.

Four is a recurring number during the seder (for cups of wine, four questions, four children, etc), but there aren't "4 promises".

With a hair brush.

It is not known for certain who authored the Haggadah.

Yes, asparagus is fine for Passover.

Disclaimer: some groups do not allow asparagus due to the difficulty of confirming there are no bugs in the head of the stalk.

You drink the first cup after saying Kiddush in the beginning of the seder.

You drink the second cup after saying Hallelujah and before the washing of the hands (Rahatz)

Then you drink the third cup before Hallel and at this point, the Cup of Elijah is filled.

Finally, the fourth cup is to be drank right before the acceptance of the divine service or Nirtza.

the date of the full moon never changes, Jewish have their own counting, and full moon always is on 15th day of the month by the Jewish count-usually it also called the middle of the month

how do jewish people say passover in their language

These moadim (appointmented times) of God reflect the story of Moshe (Moses) and the Israelites.

Pesach is the 1st festival of the calendar. It is the day when God passed over the homes of those who put the blood of the pesach on the doors. The pesah is a sacrifice of a 1 year old male lamb.

Shavuot is the end of the counting from the days after Pesach for 7 weeks plus 1 day. On that 50th day is the festival of Shavuot (weeks). 2 loaves of bread and various sacrifices were offered. This is the day that God gave the people the 10 commandments.

Sukkot is a week spent in foliage-covered booths. This is a remembrance of the 40 years of wandering the wilderness the people had to do after given the 10 commandments.

Because it depict the rich of the time that leaned on chairs and where waited on and fed!