By now you should have received your special Pesach mailing with important Pesach information.
Here are the answers to my “Pesach Challenge”.
May I wish you a happy and joyuos Pesach holiday.
Rabbi Grundfast

1. How many parts in the Pesach Seder? (15)
2. Name the book that we use at the Pesach Seder. (Haggadah)
3. How many questions are there in the ‘four questions’? (One)
4. What do you get when the number of questions in the four questions is subtracted from the number of plagues sent by God? (Nine)
5. How many days do we celebrate Pesach? (Eight)
6. What does the word Seder mean? (Order)
7. Why did God tell the Israelites to offer a lamb as a sacrifice on the night before they left Egypt? (The lamb was considered one of Egypt’s gods)
8. What do we get when we add the parts of the Seder with the cups of wine that we drink? (19)
9. What is the origin of the word Pesach? (The angle of death passed over the homes of the Children of Israel)
10. What are the five symbolic foods on the Seder plate? (Roasted egg; haroset; maror; roasted bone; and karps)
11. Name Moses’ siblings. (Aaron and Miriam)
12. Subtract the four cups of wine from the plagues. ((six)
13. What are three explanations for why we have three ceremonial matzot on our Seder table? (1. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; 2. Kohen, Levi, Yisraeyl; 3. After you break the middle matzah for the afikoman, you still need two WHOLE loaves in order to say the motzi)
14. Which of the three ceremonial matzot do we break for the afikoman? (We break the middle one)
15. Add the number of parts in the Seder with the cups we drink and subtract the number of cups we prepare for Elijah. (18)
16. What does the word Afikoman mean? (Greek for dessert)
17. When we break the matzah for the afikoman we must break it into two uneven pieces. Which one becomes the afikoman and why? (We set aside the larger piece because as ‘slaves’ we never know when we will have our next meal, so we put more away for the future)
18. Multiply the number of cups by the number of plagues. (40)
19. Name the Hebrew date for the Pesach holiday. (15 Nisan)
20. Divide the plagues by five and add the cups of wine. ((6)
21. Matzah can only be made from five grains. What are they? (Wheat, rye, barley, oats and spelt)
22. Subtract the number of cups we drink from the amount of days that Pesach was celebrated by our ancient ancestors before the destruction of the Holy Temple? (3)
23. What is the recipe for baking matzah? (Flour and water and baked for no more than 18 minutes)
24. What does the haroset symbolize? (The mortar our ancient ancestors used to build Pharaoh’s cities)
25. Subtract the number of ceremonial matzot from the items of the Seder plate. ((2)
26. What does the roasted shank bone represent? (Paschal lamb sacrifice)
27. What is the REAL reason for why we have a roasted egg on the seder plate? (The additional sacrifice for Pesach)
28. Pesach has many names. One of them is “Z’man Herutainu”. What does this phrase mean? (Season of our freedom)
29. Pesach is known by two other names, what are they? (Hag Hamatzot- holiday of matzahs; Hag Haaviv-Springtime festival)