Passover is celebrated today in homes by having a Seder. Seder means order, and we read the Passover story in a special order from the book called a Hagadah. Hagadah means "to tell" and we tell the story of our ancestors, and remind ourselves that we are now free people. There are different parts of the Seder and during the Seder we eat traditional and symbolic foods that remind us of the Jewish people and their hardship. One of the things that we do is to dip a spring vegetable into salt water. The vegetable is a sign of spring, or rebirth, and the salt water represent the tears of the slaves. We eat bitter herbs, to remind us of the bitterness of slavery. We eat a special mixture, called Charoset, which is made of apples, nuts, wine, and cinnamon (although there are many different varieties of this, depending on where your ancestors lived) that reminds us of the mortar that the slaves made their bricks from. The name Passover comes from when the Angel of Death passed over the homes of the Jews, because they had been forewarned, and had put lamb blood on their doors, so that death would spare their first born child.