Torah Rocket Conversion — Part 8 Pesach

Torah RocketTorah Rocket • Part 8v6.4.1
OFFICIAL NUMBERING PRESERVED • Q1–39 WITH GAPS

Pesach / Passover

Shabbat HaGadol, Seder, chametz, kitchen preparation, Four Cups, Four Questions, Omer and more.

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Official questions

1. a) When is Shabbat HaGadol?
b) Explain the name.
Your study note: The Shabbat before Pesach. The note connects the name with Israelites tying sheep for the future sacrifice and the Egyptians not harming them, and also mentions the firstborn conflict.
2. Why are firstborn required to fast on Erev Pesach?
Your study note: Because the Jewish firstborn were spared from being killed.
3. a) What is Seder Night?
b) How many are held?
Your study note: The night on which we conduct the Seder. Two Seders outside Israel and one in Israel.
4. What mitzvot have to be fulfilled on Seder Night?
Your study note: Eat maror, eat matzah, drink four cups of wine, and read the Haggadah.
5. a) Name the 6 foods on the Seder Plate and explain the symbolism of each.
c) How many matzot are placed on the table?
d) What are they called?
Your study note: Egg, chicken bone, romaine lettuce, horseradish, charoset and karpas. The note connects them with festival/Pesach sacrifice, bitterness, bricks/mortar and tears/salt water. Three matzot are used, called Cohen, Levi and Israel in the note.
6. What is the difference between ordinary matzah and Matzah Shemurah?
Your study note: Matzah Shemurah is guarded from harvest so it does not contact water before the proper baking process.
7. a) What is Chametz?
b) Give examples.
c) What are kitniyot?
d) What are gebrokts?
Your study note: Chametz is connected with the five grains and leavening after flour and water mix; the note mentions 18 minutes. Examples include bread, whisky and beer from grain. Kitniyot examples: rice, beans, buckwheat; Ashkenazi custom not to eat them on Pesach. Gebrokts: Chassidic custom avoiding matzah/matzah meal that contacted water.
8. Specify the period during which eating or possessing Chametz is prohibited.
Your study note: The note says eating chametz stops after the 4th halachic hour on Erev Pesach; possession by the 5th; restriction continues until Pesach ends at night.
9. a) What is done on the night preceding Pesach?
b) And the morning before?
Your study note: At night search the house for chametz. In the morning burn the chametz not being sold/put away.
10. a) May a Jew have Chametz at home during Pesach?
b) What must be done beforehand?
c) When?
Your study note: No. Burn or sell it beforehand; the note says by the end of the 5th halachic hour on Erev Pesach.
11. a) May a Jew use Chametz dishes on Pesach?
b) How do you make your kitchen kosher for Pesach?
Your study note: Chametz dishes are not used. Clean refrigerator/gaskets, kasher oven at high heat/self-clean, heat grates, pour hot water on counters and cover them, and kasher suitable sinks or use inserts.
12. From what time onwards are we allowed to eat Matzah on Pesach?
Your study note: After dark.
13. What do the matzot remind us of?
Your study note: The rush to leave Egypt before the bread could rise; salvation came quickly.
14. What brachot are made on potato starch cakes?
Your study note: The supplied note says Shehakol on potato-starch cakes because the potato changed form; it contrasts Haadamah on ordinary potatoes and Mezonot on five-grain cakes.
15. Why can’t roasted meat be served at the Seder?
Your study note: Because the Pesach sacrifice was roasted.
16. Why do we eat Matzah and Maror together?
Your study note: Following Rabbi Hillel, who understood the verse as eating matzah and maror together; the note says we eat them separately and together.
17. a) What is a Kittel?
b) What does it symbolize?
Your study note: A white coat worn by a married man at the Seder; symbolizes purity in connection with the sacrifice.
18. Are women obliged to take part in the Seder? Why?
Your study note: Yes, because they were involved in the miracle.
19. Explain the words Seder and Haggadah.
Your study note: Seder = order, the order of the night. Haggadah = to retell; the book/text used to retell the Exodus.
20. At every Seder we hope somebody will appear. Who?
Your study note: Eliyahu HaNavi.
21. What is the Afikoman and what are the 2 conditions concerning eating it?
Your study note: Larger part of the middle matzah; eaten as the last food. Do not be completely full when eating it and do not eat anything afterwards.
22. How many cups of wine do we drink during the Seder?
Your study note: Four.
23. Write the four questions asked at the Seder.
Your study note: Why only matzah? Why maror? Why dip twice? Why lean?
24. Describe the four sons mentioned in the Haggadah.
Your study note: Wise, wicked, simple, and the son who does not know how to ask.
25. Name some of the Ten Plagues.
Your study note: Examples: blood, frogs, lice, hail, darkness, death of the firstborn.
26. Which three things must be mentioned on Pesach to fulfill our duty?
Your study note: Pesach, Matzah and Maror.
27. What do we celebrate on the seventh day of Pesach?
Your study note: Crossing of the Red Sea.
28. On which other holiday do we say “Leshanah Habaah beYerushalayim”?
Your study note: Yom Kippur, after the final shofar blast.
29. On what other occasion, apart from Pesach, do we invite Eliyahu HaNavi?
Your study note: Brit milah/circumcision; the note mentions a special chair for Eliyahu.
30. When do we read Shir HaShirim?
Your study note: Shabbat of Pesach, specifically Shabbat Chol Hamoed.
31. What is the Tal prayer and when do we read it?
Your study note: Tal = dew; read on the first day of Pesach.
32. When do we begin counting the Omer?
Your study note: Second day of Pesach; count 49 days toward Shavuot.
33. What does Lag B’Omer mean and when is it?
Your study note: 33rd day of the Omer, 18 Iyar; connected with the stopping of deaths among Rabbi Akiva’s students.
35. a) Why and for how long do we count the Omer?
b) What if one forgets a day?
Your study note: Count 49 days to prepare for Shavuot. If a full day is forgotten, continue counting without a bracha.
36. a) Why are the Omer days a time of mourning?
b) What do we refrain from doing?
Your study note: Deaths of Rabbi Akiva’s students. The note lists no marriages, music, haircuts or shaving during the mourning period.
38. What is Pirkei Avot?
Your study note: “Teachings of our Fathers.”
39. What is Yashan and its relevance to the Omer period?
Your study note: Yashan = old grain/wheat; new grain is not eaten until the second day of Pesach.