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Passover Checklist
Seder Checklist
Q Seder plate
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Q Shemurah matzah
Q Wine/grape juice
Q Hard-boiled egg
Q A roasted piece of meat or poultry, e.g., chicken neck
Q Romaine lettuce
Q Ground horseradish
Q Charoset (mixture of fruits and nuts; e.g., apples, pears, walnuts)
Q A seder-plate vegetable; e.g., cooked potato or raw onion
Q Saltwater
Q Candles
Q Haggadah
Beware of Chametz !
Throughout the festival of Passover, the Torah forbids the owning, eating, or derivation of any benefit from chametz. Chametz, or “leaven,” refers to any food in which grain and water come in contact long enough to possibly ferment.
Commercially produced foods used during the festival should therefore be certified “Kosher for Passover.” And in the weeks before the festival, we remove all chametz from our homes. On the night before Passover—this year, we perform this on Sunday evening, April 21—we conduct a search for any remaining chametz; on the following morning, we burn what we found and renounce all ownership of any leaven that may have escaped our notice.
Chametz that one wishes to have after Passover should be sold to a non Jew for the duration of the holiday. This sale must be enacted properly; to sell online, see the web address on page 19.
