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New page: right|thumb|250px|Charoset, made from walnuts, wine, cinammon, honey and apples '''Charoset''' (Hebrew: חֲרֽוֹסֶת derived from חרס ''cheres'' "clay")...
[[Image:Charoset.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Charoset, made from walnuts, wine, cinammon, honey and apples]]
'''Charoset''' ([[Hebrew]]: חֲרֽוֹסֶת derived from חרס ''cheres'' "clay") is a mixture typically containing [[apple]]s, [[nut]]s, [[cinnamon]], [[honey]], and [[wine]] which serves to sweeten the bitter [[maror]] of the [[Passover]] [[Seder]] meal. Because of its appearance, it symbolizes the mud mixed with straw used by the slaves in [[Egypt]]ian buildings.<ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/recipes-pesach/charoset-charoses.html ''Charoset: What is it?''] "Recipes For The Passover/Pesach Seder". Accessed 18 February 2008</ref> It is a favourite of many children, who during the Seder meal, often eat it thickly spread on [[Matzo|matzah]].
In the [[Song of Songs]] the [[Jewish]] people are compared to apples, [[pomegranate]]s, [[fig]]s, [[date]]s, [[walnut]]s and [[almond]]s, which have all been used as ingredients for Charoset. The [[Talmud]] also says that the Charoset should be made "tangy" by using apples to commemorate the apple trees under which the Jewish women secretly gave birth in Egypt ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%208:5;&version=9; Song of Songs 8:5]) The feminine imagery is also alluded to by many rabbinical scholars who believe that Charoset represents the Jewish women's and God's way of relating to slavery and the slaves: "the enslavement was bitter, both physically brutal and psychologically degrading, but the Jewish women didn't lose hope, and God was with [them], raising a new generation of Jewish children."<ref>[http://www.vbm-torah.org/pesach/charoset.htm ''Charoset''] (1997) Yeshivat Har Etzion. Accessed 18 February 2008</ref> The Maror (enslavement) is tempered with the Charoset (hope and caring).
==External links==
*[http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/pchindex.htm Passover Charoset] 40 recipes for Charoset at JewishFood.org. Accessed 18 February 2008
==References==
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[[Category:Judaism]][[Category:Religious festivals]][[Category:Food]]
'''Charoset''' ([[Hebrew]]: חֲרֽוֹסֶת derived from חרס ''cheres'' "clay") is a mixture typically containing [[apple]]s, [[nut]]s, [[cinnamon]], [[honey]], and [[wine]] which serves to sweeten the bitter [[maror]] of the [[Passover]] [[Seder]] meal. Because of its appearance, it symbolizes the mud mixed with straw used by the slaves in [[Egypt]]ian buildings.<ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/recipes-pesach/charoset-charoses.html ''Charoset: What is it?''] "Recipes For The Passover/Pesach Seder". Accessed 18 February 2008</ref> It is a favourite of many children, who during the Seder meal, often eat it thickly spread on [[Matzo|matzah]].
In the [[Song of Songs]] the [[Jewish]] people are compared to apples, [[pomegranate]]s, [[fig]]s, [[date]]s, [[walnut]]s and [[almond]]s, which have all been used as ingredients for Charoset. The [[Talmud]] also says that the Charoset should be made "tangy" by using apples to commemorate the apple trees under which the Jewish women secretly gave birth in Egypt ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%208:5;&version=9; Song of Songs 8:5]) The feminine imagery is also alluded to by many rabbinical scholars who believe that Charoset represents the Jewish women's and God's way of relating to slavery and the slaves: "the enslavement was bitter, both physically brutal and psychologically degrading, but the Jewish women didn't lose hope, and God was with [them], raising a new generation of Jewish children."<ref>[http://www.vbm-torah.org/pesach/charoset.htm ''Charoset''] (1997) Yeshivat Har Etzion. Accessed 18 February 2008</ref> The Maror (enslavement) is tempered with the Charoset (hope and caring).
==External links==
*[http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/pchindex.htm Passover Charoset] 40 recipes for Charoset at JewishFood.org. Accessed 18 February 2008
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
[[Category:Judaism]][[Category:Religious festivals]][[Category:Food]]