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Seder Plate is an important part
of the Seder table. It contains five important Passover foods
including Charoset.
The Seder Plate
The Seder Plate has five foods that have special meaning to them:
- Charoset - A mixture of chopped walnuts, wine, cinnamon and
apples representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves.
- Parsley (dipped in salt water) - Symbol of Spring and new life
and tears of the Jewish slaves.
- Roasted egg - Symbol of fertility and Spring.
- Shank Bone - Symbol of the sacrificial lamb offered in the Holy
temple at Jerusalem. The bone used can be from anything cooked such
as the leg bone of a roasted turkey. Vegetarian Jews use beetroot
instead of a bone.
- Bitter herbs - Freshly grated horseradish symbolizes the
bitterness and harshness of slavery.
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