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 13 The Passover Haggadah

A CUP OF WINE IS PLACED BEFORE EACH PERSON AT THE TABLE. EVERYONE IS TO DRINK FOUR CUPS OF WINE DURING THE SEDER.

THE PA 1. Recite the Kiddush. 2. Wash the hands. 3. Eat the greens dipped in salt water.* 4. Break the middle matzah and keep half for the afikoman. 5. Recite the Haggadah. 6. Wash the hands for the meal.* 8. Say Hamotzi and a special blessing over the matzah. 9. Eat the bitter herb dipped in haroseth.* 10. Eat the maror and matzah sandwich.*

SSOVER SEDER

11, Serve the Pesah meal. 12, Distribute parts of the afikoman to alll present. 1. Say grace after the meal. 14. Chant the Hallel. 15. Recite the closing prayer.
 * After the presi ribed benediction,

Kwpust On Sabbath Eve: (There was evening and there was morning— ‘The sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all their host. By the seventh day God had completed his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from

fifth cup is really needed for the Seder in the opinion of Rabbi Tarfon, a question that could not be solved by the medioval authorities of the Talmud.

The fifteen terms indicating the sequence of the Seder service are written in rhyme and devised asa mnemonic. Abudarham quotes a variety of mnemon- ic verses which he found in Haggadah manuscripts in addition to the mnemonic verse in our printed editions (pn w7p) which has been attributed to Rashi, who lived in France during the eleventh century.

rrp recited at home over wine, the symbol of joy, is attributed to the Men of the Great Assembly who flourished during the carly period of the �