Can you tell me what kinds of food do they eat in Seder?

Question

On Passover, Jewish families eat a specail meal called the Seder. Can you tell me what kinds of food do they eat in Seder? I only know there are six kinds of food, but don't know what they are. what does "matzot" mean? i can't find this word in dictionary. please answer in english, thank you

Answer 1

I believe you are referring to the foods placed on the seder plate:
Karpas- a vegetable (my family uses parsley)
Chazeret- Lettuce
Marror- bitter herb (usually horseradish or Romain lettuce)
Charoset- a sweet dip made primarily of nuts, wine, apple
Zero'ah-the "shankbone" (usually a roasted chicken neck, wing, or leg)
Beitzah- Hard boiled egg

They all have special symbolism, too. Off the top of my head, charoset represents the mortar used in Egypt, the marror is the bitterness of slavery, the zeroah is the main sacrafice (the "paschal lamb"), the egg is another type of sacrafice, the karpas is a lot of things, such as spring, and the number of Jews, and I really don't know about the chazeret. Not everyone actually has a chazeret on their seder plate, by the way.
Matza is the unleavened bread eating over Passover. Risen flour is forbidden in even the smallest amounts during the holiday, so matza is flat, hard, and tasteless. "Matzot" is the plural of matza. There are three matzot on display at the seder table. They are used in several of the 15 stages stages of the Seder:
4. Yachatz- the middle matza is broken in half. The larger piece will make an appearance (or disappearance) later as the afikomen.
7. Motzi- the blessing over bread is made
8. Matza- blessing siad, everyone eats a piece of matza
10. Korech- everyone eats a "Hillel sandwich"- matza with marror and charoset on top.
12. Tzafun- the afikomen is ritually eaten as dessert. (The word "afikomen" is actually Greek for "dessert"). It's become a tradition that, sometime between Yachatz and Tzafun, the father hides the afikomen and the kids have to find it. Or the kids hide the afikomen, and the father has to hide it.

Answer 2

I went to a Seder supper once, it was interesting to go to once and learn what everything represented and about the culture/customs. The only things I really remember from it, it's been too long ago, is I believe there was an egg (hard boiled), and lamb (which I found out I didn't care for). Since I didn't remember I looked it up to see, this has a lot of information about it. I hope this helps answer your question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder

Answer 3

Mazel Tov (congratulations) on your first. initially, loosen up and actually think of of of it as a night meal with analyzing. each and every kin does it fairly in any distinctive case so i'm no longer able to allow you to already know for constructive, yet possibly in the event that they're inviting a non-Jew then they're going to do optimum or all of it in English. you would be asked to examine (actual all and sundry will) part of the Haggadah. If there are words you do no longer understand, ask for fairly help. All you will possibly be able to desire to desire to do is seem, have thrilling, be open to a clean experience, and act as you will possibly be able to desire to at different night meal. the factor to the Seder is to tell the story and coach so they are going to make certain which you do assist you rejoice with. i'm constructive they are going to allow you to already know a time, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that the holiday starts off off at sunset so form of 6 or 6:30. in case you're asked to place across a dish, then ask the hostess for policies as there are particular components no longer authorized in the process the time of Passover. yet plant existence or a bottle of kosher wine (severe severe high quality ones available at optimum extra constructive liquor shops) are a severe severe high quality latest to place across. And the greeting for the holiday is Zizin Pesach (with fairly phlegm on the ch which isn't ordinary, no longer the sound as in hen). have thrilling.

Answer 4

http://www.aish.com/passcook/

Matzah is unleavened bread