Rabbi Mordechai’s Seder plate explained The 15 Hebrew 2019-12-04-s running around the inside of the plate indicate the order of the Seder meal:
- Kadesh (blessings of sanctification over a glass of wine)
- Urchatz (washing of the hands)
- Karpas (eating a piece of vegetable or fresh green leaves, such as parsley, dipped in salt-water)
- Yachatz (breaking of the middle Matzah of the three on the table)
- Maggid (telling the Passover story)
- Rachtzah (washing of the hands for a second time)
- Motzi (blessing of the unleavened bread)
- Matzah (eating the Matzah)
- Maror (eating the bitter herbs, commonly horseradish)
- Korech (eating a sandwich of Matzah and bitter herbs, dipped in Charoset)
- Shulchan Orech (eating the main festive meal)
- Tzafun (hiding by adults and finding by children – or vice versa – and eating one half of the broken middle Matzah, as the Afikomen or ‘dessert’)
- Barekh (saying grace after the meal)
- Hallel (singing songs of praise)
- Nirtzah (concluding prayer for Divine acceptance of the performance of the commandments of the Passover meal)
