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'''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]].   

'''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).

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])<ref>Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg [http://neohasid.org/torah/mystery_of_charoset/ ''The Mystery of Charoset''] NeoHasid.org. Accessed 18 February 2008</ref> 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).

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