Editing Passover Seder (section)

===Seder plate===

The special Passover Seder plate ({{transliteration|he|ke'arah}}) is the special plate containing symbolic foods used during the Passover Seder. Each of the six items arranged on the plate has special significance to the retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The seventh symbolic item used during the meal – a stack of three matzot – is placed on its own plate on the Seder table.

The six items on the Seder plate are:
* ''[[Maror]]'': Bitter herbs, which [[Gamaliel]] says symbolize the bitterness and harshness of the slavery which the Jews endured in Ancient Egypt. For ''maror'', many people use freshly grated horseradish or whole horseradish root.
* ''Chazeret'' is typically romaine lettuce, whose roots are bitter-tasting. In addition to horseradish and romaine lettuce, other forms of bitter lettuce, such as [[endive]], may be eaten in fulfillment of the [[mitzvah]], as well as green onions, dandelion greens, celery leaves, or curly parsley (but parsley and celery are more commonly used as the karpas or vegetable element).  Much depends upon whether one's tradition is Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Persian, or one of the many other Jewish ethno-cultural traditions.
* ''[[Charoset]]'': A sweet, brown, pebbly paste of fruits and nuts, possibly representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the storehouses of Egypt.  The actual recipe depends partly on ethno-cultural tradition and partly on locally available ingredients. Ashkenazi Jews, for example, traditionally make apple-raisin based charoset while Sephardic Jews often make date-based recipes that might feature orange or/and lemon, or even banana. Other Talmudic traditions claim the Charoset "recalls the apple", apparently referencing a tradition that Jewish women snuck out to apple orchards to conceive in Egypt, and that it is not obligatory but serves to nullify the poison of the maror.
* ''[[Karpas]]'': A vegetable other than bitter herbs, sometimes parsley or [[celery]] or cooked [[potato]], which is dipped into salt water (Ashkenazi custom), vinegar (Sephardi custom), or [[charoset]] ([[Yemenite Jews]]) at the beginning of the Seder.
* ''[[Zeroa]]'': A roasted lamb or goat bone, symbolizing the {{transliteration|he|korban Pesach}} (Pesach sacrifice), which was a lamb offered in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] and was then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.
* ''Beitzah'': A roast egg – usually a [[hard-boiled egg]] that has been roasted in a baking pan with a little oil, or with a lamb shank – symbolizing the {{transliteration|he|korban chagigah}} (festival sacrifice) that was offered in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] and was then eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.