[Yaelle]

Happy Easter to all of you.

I’ve often wondered if the children searching for goodies on Easter was taken from the two times children search at passover.

First, the home is cleaned of all unleavened bread, flour, etc. at the end of this cleaning, Jewish children search for some pieces of bread their parents have hidden to complete
The task. Supposedly only be candlelight (we don’t go that far).

Then you might know that part of the ceremonial matzah in the Passover Seder meal “disappears” during the meal but is needed for the Seder to go on at the end. (An adult has hidden it). The children all go searching for it, and whoever finds it is paid a few
Dollars by the Seder leader in order to use it to complete
The Seder.

Since both holidays have that children searching thing, I wondered if Easter borrowed that fun tradition.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I didn’t know about that. Fascinating! Yes, it seems a reasonable hunch that these “children searching for goodies” customs could be related.