Seder Plate Answers

• Maror (bitter herbs) obviously representing the bitterness of slavery
• Karpas (vegetable)An onion or boiled potato. Again representing backbreaking work.
• Chazeret (non bitter vegetable)The roots of Romaine lettuce turn bitter. A representation of the fate of the Jews.
• Charoset (apple, nut, spice and wine mixture) a representation of the mortar and bricks that Jews used for Pharoh
• Zeroa (shankbone) ....Symbolizes the Paschal sacrifice on the eve of the exodus
• Beitzah (egg) represents the Holiday offering in the days of the Temple

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