Maror
Sign in to savethumb|Grated horseradish mixed with cooked beets (known as chrein), [[romaine lettuce, and horseradish root, which should be freshly grated]] thumb|Passover Seder plate, maror on the lowest plate Maror ( mārōr) are the bitter herbs eaten at the Passover Seder in keeping with the biblical commandment "with bitter herbs they shall eat it." (Exodus 12:8). The Maror is one of the symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder plate.
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10 sectionsContents
- Biblical source
- Symbolism
- Use at the Seder
- Types of maror
- Hazzeret
- ʿUlshin
- Tamcha
- Harhavina
- Maror
- References
thumb|Grated horseradish mixed with cooked beets (known as chrein), [[romaine lettuce, and horseradish root, which should be freshly grated]] thumb|Passover Seder plate, maror on the lowest plate Maror ( mārōr) are the bitter herbs eaten at the Passover Seder in keeping with the biblical commandment "with bitter herbs they shall eat it." (Exodus 12:8). The Maror is one of the symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder plate.
==Biblical source== In some listings of the 613 commandments, such as the commentary of Joseph Babad on the Sefer ha-Chinuch, the biblical obligation to consume maror is included within the commandment to consume the meat of the Passover sacrifice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maror” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.