It is weird not having a seder plate full of maror, charoset (my favorite), karpas, Z'roa, and Beitzah. When I used to live at home, my sister, mother, and I would make Charoset. This delicious mixture of nutes, apples, cinnamon and red wine was used to build up buildings in Egypt. Waking maror was my grandfather's job- he always loved having fresh horseradish- so spicy/bitter to represent the harshness of slavery! The Karpas was my brother's job- to separate the parsley and celery-and make salt water- this combination represented the pain the jews felt. Now the gross part- the Z'roa- goat shankbone- and boiled egg (Beitzah)- that was dad's job- these represented sacrifice.
Regardless of missing the seder, I know I am not going to miss just that! When the pharoah freed the Hebrews, they fleed so quickly that their bread did not rise. SO I will be missing leavened bread for this week. Let the week of Matzah begin;-)
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