It is customary to begin the Passover meal with hard-boiled eggs flavoured with salt water. The egg is symbolic of new life, and of hope; the salt water, a symbol of tears. Eggs, unlike other foods, harden when they are cooked, symbolic of our faith being tempered and hardened by the forces of our history.


haggadah Section: Shulchan Oreich
Source: Issie Berish