Passover (Pesach) Prep – Part 2

Passover starts Monday night, and our community seder is Tuesday night at our house. The final countdown has begun! This particular Feast of the Lord is the most traditional one and is celebrated the most, even by secular Jews. No two seders are alike. You have to decide what you want your guests to leave with and focus on those things.  This Messianic blog post boils everything down to seven goals of a Pesach seder. I love this. You don’t even have to focus on all seven. Seders don’t have to be long and complicated. It’s a time for family…for celebrating the love of Abba….for remembering how He brought us out of darkness…for seeing the mystery of the gospel of Yeshua hidden in every aspect of the seder.  Have fun!

Here is a list of supplies needed:

- Haggadah for each participant: I found a great online Haggadah (printed order for the seder). It’s great if everyone can have a haggadah, but at least one for every two people. This is a good one to order.

- Pocketed Matzah linen (“matzah tash”)

- Seder plate (This is our seder plate.)

- Wine glasses for each participant Plates for each participant

- 2 Candles for the table

- 2 bowls per person (one for salt water, one for lemon water), or you can put one set of two bowls between each two place settings

- Wine and/or grape juice

- Lamb shank bone (If you can’t find a lamb bone, don’t fret. Just get a similar sized one from another animal.  It’s the idea, the symbolism that counts. Please no pig bone, though!)

- Hard-boiled egg

- Matzah – Two squares per person plus 3. (If I was having 10 guests, I would by at least 23 squares of matzah.)

- Parsley – Every person will get a sprig of parsley, plus what is on the seder plate.

- Horseradish – Every person will get a teaspoon, plus what is on the seder plate.

- Charoset (chopped apples, mixed with honey or sugar, walnuts, applesauce, wine and cinnamon) – I make tons of this!

- Salt for salt water

- Lemon for wash water

- Prizes for afikomen (We use $5 cash.)

- Passover meal (We are having roast chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, and salad.)

I still haven’t gotten a lamb bone or the parsley or the horseradish, but everything else is bought. Passover is definitely something you need to plan for. It would be hard to wait until the day of the seder and try and get everything together. It wouldn’t be impossible, but it’s better to think ahead!

Stay tuned for Part 3, then I’ll post pics of the actual seder Tuesday night!