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Matzo Plates & Covers

Seder is an intergenerational family ritual when families and friends gather around the table on the nights of Passover to read one of the many versions of the Haggadah, the story of the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. On the nights of Seder customs include drinking of four cups of wine, eating matzo and partaking of symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate. Passover Seder is a very important feast and requires thorough preparation including such items as beautiful Seder plates. Judaica Gifts is the only online store where you can choose Seder plates and matzo plates and other china you like the most to make the feast even more special and sacred.

Attending a Seder and eating matzo on Passover is a widespread custom in the Jewish community, even among those who are not religiously observant. The interesting fact is that the Passover Seder plate and its contents go back thousands of years ago to the Passover and when the Jews left Egypt. It is not the actually Seder plate that has the spiritual meaning, but rather the contents of this wonderful plate.

There are six items on this plate, with their own symbolic Passover meaning. The first and second items of the Seder plates are Bitter herbs. These bitter herbs are meant to represent the suffering and terrible time that the Jews had in Egypt as slaves. Usually a type of vegetable that is bitter tasting is used in this case.

Then there is a roasted shank bone of a lamb which in our time can sometimes be represented by a chicken neck This shank bone’s significance is to help the Jews remember how the blood of a lamb preserved their first bone children from the angel of death when it came over Egypt. Another meaning is that it represents the lamb which used to be sacrificed in the temple before its destruction.

Next item on the Seder plate is a sugary brown substance called “Charoset” which is meant to represent the mortar the Jews used to build Egyptian structures. Then there is a vegetable dipped into salt water. This vegetable is can be many vegetables, but is usually either parsley, celery or a potato. This dipping of the vegetable into water represents all the tears and pain of the Jews in Egypt who could only eat plain foods. Lastly, there is a roasted egg. After the temple was destroyed, the Jews could no longer do daily sacrifice and this issue is represented by this roasted egg.