
The MLJC’s mission is to provide opportunities and events
that nurture a vibrant and enduring Jewish identity,
culture and community in the Mother Lode.
THE MOTHER LODE JEWISH COMMUNITY

YOUR JEWISH CONNECTION
IN CALIFORNIA'S GOLD COUNTRY
Serving
Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa
and Tuolumne Counties
Passover 2022
Begins the evening of Friday, April 15
and ends in the evening of Saturday, April 23

MLJC SEDER Outdoors in Columbia
Saturday, April 16, 2022, 2-5 pm.
This is the second night of Pesach.
Registration Open to Members, as attendance is limited to 50 people.
Please sigh up on the Membership page if not currently a member.
To register for this event, there are 2 steps:
1. Fill out the form below indicating number of adults, paid and unpaid children, names of attendees.
2. Click on the Donate button and send $ via PaPal or credit card.
Join your fellow MLJC members!
We will be using A Family Haggdah, (2nd ed./Passover Paperback, by Rosalind Silberman [author]
and Katherine Janus Kahn [Illustrator], 2010 ed.).
We will have them available at the gathering, but if you wish to obtain your own set, they are available through Amazon and elsewhere in several formats.

Cost per Person:
Adult: $25.00
6 – 13yrs old: $12.00
Under 6: Free

The Seder Plate
Bitter Herbs
Maror - generally horseradish &
Chazeret - most often Romaine lettuce
Representing the bitterness of slavery.
Karpas - Usually parsley or celery, other traditions use raw onion or boiled potato
Representing hope and renewal.
Charoset - chopped apples, nuts, sweet wine, cinnamon & honey
Representing the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to make bricks.
Zeroah - Roasted lamb shank bone; or chicken neck or shank bone;
Vegetarians often substitute roasted beet or yam ("Paschal yam”)
Symbolizing the Paschal Lamb (Passover sacrifice).
Baytza - Roasted or hardboiled egg
Symbolizing the korban chagigah (festival sacrifice),
evoking the idea of mourning over the destruction of the Temple.
Other Traditional & Symbolic Items Needed include...
Matzot - Unleavened Bread - symbolizing the Exodus to freedom - 3 whole pieces of Matzo, typically covered with a cloth.
Salt water - symbolizing the tears and sweat of enslavement.
Wine glasses and wine (or grape juice) - the four cups represent the four biblical promises of redemption.
The Haggadah - the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights.