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Karpas – Dipping the Vegetables Step: 4

Locate the
karpas on the
table… Everyone
should take a
piece and hold it
at this time.

Leader: The fourth activity of our Passover Seder is to taste
some karpas, a vegetable (often parsley, celery or a radish)
dipped into salt water or vinegar.

The karpas symbolizes the growth and fertility of the Jewish people in Egypt, but it also
remembers their great suffering. We eat karpas dipped in salt water to remember the tears that
were shed during the time of oppression and slavery in Egypt. When you dip the karpas, shake
off some of the salt water so that the drops will resemble tears….

Before we dip karpas in the salt water and eat, let us pause and recall the suffering of those still
in bondage... and now let us recite the following traditional blessing:

Karpas (sPrK) Karpas reminds
us that it was
alludes to ketonet (K)
passim (P), that is, springtime when
the Exodus took
the coat given to place…
Joseph that started
the sequence that
lead to the great
Exodus....
As you eat,
remember the
tears of those who
All Recite: are in bondage
today…

Barukh attah Adonai, Eloheinu melekh ha’olam,

borei peri ha’adamah. This blessing also
applies to the
maror we will eat
later in the seder…
“Blessed art thou, Lord our God, Master of the universe,
Creator of the fruit of the earth.”

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