☞   //   Prayers, Poems, and Piyyutim   //   Birkat haMazon & Other Prayers Over Food   //   Symbolic Foods

☞   Symbolic Foods

סדר לפסח: חרוסת | Ḥaroset, the Seder’s Innermost Secret: Earth & Eros in the Celebration of Pesaḥ, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Contributor(s): and
Shared on י׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ד (2014-04-09).

There it sits on the Seder plate: ḥaroset, a delicious paste of chopped nuts, chopped fruits, spices, and wine. So the question would seem obvious: “Why is there ḥaroset on the Seder plate?” That’s the most secret Question at the Seder – so secret nobody even asks it. And it’s got the most secret answer: none. . . .

Addition to the Rosh Hashanah Seder for the Shmitah Year, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

Contributor(s): and
Shared on ד׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-31).
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Many people eat special foods as part of a mini-seder at the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah meal and invoke blessings for the year as they eat them. This year, you can add figs to your Rosh Hashanah seder (apples and honey, or apples, dates, beets, etc.) and recite with this kavvanah (intention). . . .

A Second Passover Seder Plate with Seven Additions, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):
Shared on ט׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ט (2019-04-14).
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Additional symbolic foods arranged on a second seder plate. . . .


בסיעתא דארעא