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All Green With Life
When we bless the green parsley and dip it in the salty water, we remember the spring, and we remember the long, sad years of our slavery.When we left Egypt,we bloomed and sprouted,and songs dripped from our tongueslike shimmering ...Karpascontributed by heidi aycock -
Why Karpas?!?
Q) Why do we even eat and dip Karpas in the first place?A) There are 2 answers:1) to remind us of the tears from the Jews as slaves in Egypt. 2) The Gamarah says: on the Seder we overall, just do weird and unusual things. Now ...Karpascontributed by Talia Kupferman -
Why is there no orange on our
Why is there no orange on our Seder plate? In the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Hag ...Karpascontributed by e heimberg -
Poem: A.E. Housman
Stars, I have seen them fall,But when they drop and dieNo star is lost at allFrom all the star-sown sky.The toil of all that beHelps not the primal fault;It rains into the sea,And still the sea is salt. ...Karpascontributed by Monica Osborne -
Parsley, Sages, Saltwater and
We dip a green vegetable, often parsley, into saltwater and recite the blessing for green foods that grow in the ground.Why? The traditional reason, according to the Sages of the a ...Karpascontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Rhyming Haggadah: Karpas
Our tale to tell, both happy and sad, like all great lore, some good, some bad On our table the symbols abound you needn't look far, they're all around Look on your plate, for parsley green a sign of Spring when it is seen. And so ...Karpascontributed by Rabbi Scott Gurdin -
Karpas Cocktail
Karpas is a vegetable other than bitter herbs on the seder plate, and it represe ...Karpascontributed by SippingSeder
