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Students designed Rube Goldberg machine that tells the story of Passover

Students designed Rube Goldberg machine that tells the story of Passover


Traditionally the story of Passover is read out loud during a Seder, but this year a group of engineering students from an Israeli university decided to tell the story a little differently.

Students from Technion created an impressive Passover-themed Rube Goldberg machine to tell the story.  

According the Rube Goldberg Inc. website, a Rube Goldberg machine is “an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles and live animals [that] takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated."

This clever machine hits on all of the key events, including baby Moses in a basket, the burning bush, the plagues and even the splitting of the Red Sea!

“We wanted the machine to display central holiday themes: the Red Sea, Moses in the wicker basket, the ten plagues and the burning bush,” said Nadav Maccabi, one of the designers. “We worked on the construction of the machine about a week.”

So what does the machine ultimately do? It lifts the lid off a Seder plate in front of the machines’ designers.