seder plate
Ritual meal dish
A seder plate is the ceremonial dish used during the Jewish Passover meal, holding symbolic foods that represent elements of the Exodus story.
Each item has ritual significance: bitter herbs for the bitterness of slavery, a roasted egg for sacrifice, charoset for the mortar used by Hebrew slaves, and others.
The plate serves as both a teaching tool and a centerpiece for the seder table.
- charosetRitual fruit-nut paste
- lettuceLeafy salad vegetable
- roasted eggEgg cooked by dry heat
- hard boiled eggFully cooked in shell
- PassoverFestival of liberation
Pesach · Jewish tradition · matzah · horseradish · Exodus · freedom · salt water · Haggadah · shankbone · egg · bitter herbs · afikoman · parsley · spring greens · plagues · Moses · slavery · Pharaoh
- PassoverPassover, matzah, seder, charoset, Haggadah
- Passover Sederseder, seder meal, matzah, matzo, charoset
- Jewish foodbagel, challah, brisket, matzo ball soup, kugel
- Passover foodsmatzah, matzo, charoset, haroset, bitter herbs
- ritual foodscommunion wafer, communion wine, communion wafers, sacramental wine, seder
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
ceremonial vs. functional purpose
seder platedinner plate
Circular mealtime vessel
serving platter · lunch tray · paper plate · feeding trough · cafeteria tray