Passover, like many of our holidays, combines the celebration of an event from our Jewish memory

with recognition of the cycles of nature. As we remember the liberation from Egypt, we also recognize

the stirrings of spring and rebirth happening in the world around us. We now take a vegetable,

representing spring, and dip it into salt water, a symbol of the tears our ancestors shed as slaves.

Before we eat it, we recite a short blessing:

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