In this short yet informative video (03:39), Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald briefly explains each of the fifteen steps of the Passover seder in order. The steps are as follows:
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Kadesh – sanctification of the day over wine
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Urchatz – ritual handwashing with no blessing
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Karpas – eating the green vegetable (symbolic of spring) dipped in salt water (symbolic of the tears of our enslaved ancestors)
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Yachatz – breaking the middle matzah of the three matzot piled together – the larger half is reserved as the afikomen, eaten at the end of the meal
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Maggid – telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt
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Rachtzah – ritual handwashing with a blessing)
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Motzi – blessing before eating matzah
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Matzah – eating the matzah (the bread of affliction, symbolic of how quickly the Children of Israel left Egypt, symbolic of humility, and more)
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Maror – eating the bitter herb, symbolic of the bitterness of slavery
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Korech – «Hillel’s sandwich,» made of matzah, maror and charoset (symbolic of the mortar used by our ancestors in Egypt)
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Shulchan Orech – eating the festive meal
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Tzafun – eating the afikomen, symbolic of the Passover sacrifice
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Barech – blessing after eating
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Hallel – songs of praise
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Nirtzah – conclusion, including the prayer for «Next Year in Jerusalem» and other songs