04/04/2026
The seder dinner is structured around the seder plate, which contains six foods to illustrate the story of Passover. We enjoyed this dinner tonight!
1. 🐑 Zeroa: Roasted lamb shank bone. This symbolizes the lamb the Jews sacrificed as a special Passover offering (Pascal lamb).
2. 🥚 Beitzah: Roasted (hard-boiled) egg. This symbolizes the circle of life and the festival sacrifice offered at the Temple of Jerusalem.
3. 🍠 Maror: Horseradish or bitter herbs. This symbolizes the bitterness of life as a slave.
4. 🥬 Chazeret: Lettuce or endive. This is another symbol of the bitter enslavement of the Jewish ancestors in Egypt.
5. 🍎 Charoset: A mixture of grated apples, chopped nuts, cinnamon, and sweet red wine. This looks like the mortar and bricks that the Egyptian Pharaoh forced the slaves to make, and it also symbolizes the sweetness of freedom.
6. 🌿 Karpas: Parsley, green onion. This vegetable symbolizes hope, renewal, and the coming of spring. The vegetable is dipped into salt water and as the water drips off, it symbolizes the tears of slaves.