📅 In which Hebrew day and Hebrew month does Pesach begin?
👉 15th of Nisan (at night)
🌊 What do we celebrate on the seventh day of Pesach?
👉 Splitting of the Red Sea (Yam Suf)
👪 Who were the brother and sister of Moshe?
👉 Aharon and Miriam
🏠 What were the names of Moshe’s parents?
👉 Amram and Yocheved
🍎 What does the charoset represent?
👉 The mortar (brick mixture)
👦 👦 👦 👦 Who are the Four Sons mentioned in the Haggadah?
👉 Wise, Wicked, Simple, One who doesn’t know to ask
❓ What questions do we ask in Ma Nishtana? (Mention 3)
👉 Matzah / Maror / Reclining
🌾 What are the five grains that can become chametz?
👉 Wheat, Barley, Spelt, Rye, Oats
⏳ What three elements are necessary for something to become chametz?
👉 Grain + Water + Time
🚫 What is Bitul Chametz?
👉 Declaring chametz ownerless/null
🫓 What is the difference between regular matzah and matzah shemurah?
👉 Shemurah is guarded from harvest
🙏 What two berachot do we say before eating matzah at the Seder?
👉 HaMotzi / Al Achilat Matzah
🏺 What is the Afikoman, and when do we eat it?
👉 Final matzah, eaten at end
🧂 What does dipping karpas in salt water symbolize?
👉 Tears of slavery
⚖ What amount of chametz makes a food forbidden on Pesach?
👉 Even a tiny amount
🔥 How do we make an oven kosher for Pesach?
👉 Clean well + high heat (libun)
🛡 What is the meaning of the text “Vehi She’amda” in the Haggadah?
👉 HaShem protects us in every generation
🎶 Name five things for which we thank HaShem in Dayenu.
👉 Exodus / Splitting Sea / Manna / Torah / Israel
🚿 What special handwashing do we perform during the Seder?
👉 Urchatz (no beracha)
🛋 How and when do we recline during the Seder, and why?
👉 While eating/drinking — sign of freedom
🍷 What foods must be eaten while reclining?
👉 Matzah and 4 cups of wine
🐸 🩸 🔥 What were the Ten Plagues that struck Egypt before the Exodus? Hebrew and English
👉 Dam–Blood / Tzefardea–Frogs / Kinim–Lice / Arov–Wild animals / Dever–Pestilence / Shechin–Boils / Barad–Hail / Arbeh–Locusts / Choshech–Darkness / Makat Bechorot–Death of Firstborn
🎉 PESACH TRIVIA — Questions and Answers
Sephardic Tradition • Children’s Level
❓ 1. On which Hebrew day and month does Pesach begin?
✅ It begins on the 15th of Nisan. The Seder is on the night of the 15th.
❓ 2. What do we celebrate on the seventh day of Pesach?
🌊 We celebrate the splitting of the Red Sea (Yam Suf), when HaShem saved Bene Israel from Paro’s army.
🎶 We read the Shira — the Song of the Sea.
❓ 3. Who were the brother and sister of Moshe?
👨 Aharon
👩 Miriam
❓ 4. What were the names of Moshe’s parents?
👨 Amram
👩 Yocheved
➡️ Both from the tribe of Levi
❓ 5. What does the charoset represent?
🟤 It represents the mortar and mixture our ancestors used as slaves in Egypt.
🌰 In the Sephardic tradition, it is made with dates, raisins, nuts, and spices.
❓ 6. Who are the Four Sons in the Haggadah?
🧠 The wise (Hacham)
😠 The wicked (Rasha)
🙂 The simple (Tam)
🤷 The one who does not know how to ask
❓ 7. What questions do we ask in Ma Nishtana? (mention 3)
🫓 Why do we eat only matza and not bread?
🌿 Why do we eat maror?
🥣 Why do we dip our food twice?
➡️ (Sephardic: Why do we recline?)
❓ 8. What are the five grains that can become chametz?
🌾 Wheat
🌾 Barley
🌾 Spelt
🌾 Rye
🌾 Oats
❓ 9. What three elements make something chametz?
1️⃣ One of the five grains
2️⃣ Water
3️⃣ Time (18 minutes to ferment)
❓ 10. What is Bitul Chametz?
🗣 It is declaring that all chametz is like dust and ownerless.
🏠 In addition, we must physically remove it from all our properties.
❓ 11. What is the difference between regular matza and matza shemura?
🫓 Matza shemura = “guarded matza” from the time of harvest
➡️ It is protected so no water touches it before baking
👉 This is what we use at the Seder
❓ 12. What two berachot do we say before eating matza?
🍞 Hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz
🫓 Al achilat matza
❓ 13. What is the Afikoman and when do we eat it?
🫓 It is a piece of matza set aside
⏳ It is eaten at the end of the Seder
🎒 Many children carry it on their shoulder, remembering the Exodus from Egypt
❓ 14. What does dipping karpas in salt water symbolize?
💧 It represents the tears of Bene Israel during slavery
❓ 15. How much chametz makes a food forbidden on Pesach?
⚠️ Even a tiny amount (very small!) makes it forbidden
❓ 16. How do we kasher an oven for Pesach?
🧽 Clean it היטב
⏳ Do not use it for 24 hours
🔥 Heat it at maximum temperature (libun) to burn any residue
❓ 17. What does “VeHi She’amda” mean?
🛡 That HaShem’s promise protects us
➡️ In every generation they try to destroy us, but HaShem saves us
❓ 18. Name 5 things we thank HaShem for in Dayenu
🙏 Leaving Egypt
🌊 Crossing the sea
🕯 Receiving Shabbat
⛰ Arriving at Har Sinai
📖 Receiving the Torah
❓ 19. What handwashing do we do at the Seder?
🧼 Twice:
1️⃣ Urchatz (without a beracha)
2️⃣ Rachtzah (with a beracha)
❓ 20. How and when do we recline at the Seder? Why?
↩️ We recline to the left
🍷 When drinking the 4 cups
🫓 When eating matza
👑 Because that is how free people ate
❓ 21. Which foods are eaten while reclining?
🍷 The 4 cups
🫓 The matza (including Afikoman)
🥪 Korech
🚫 Maror does not require reclining
❓ 22. What are the Ten Plagues?
1️⃣ 🩸 Blood
2️⃣ 🐸 Frogs
3️⃣ 🐜 Lice
4️⃣ 🐾 Wild animals
5️⃣ 🐄 Pestilence
6️⃣ 🤕 Boils
7️⃣ 🌨 Hail
8️⃣ 🦗 Locusts
9️⃣ 🌑 Darkness
🔟 👶 Death of the firstborn
