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- noun
haroseth
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Examples
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Chopping apples and walnuts for the ritual paste called charoset, the cinnamony fragrance takes me back nine years, when I was celebrating the Passover holiday with Chaim, the man I loved.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lea Lane 2010
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Other food traditions shared around the world include bitter herbs, such as horseradish or endive, to remind participants of the bitterness of slavery; eggs in salt water, to symbolize rebirth and redemption; a spread made of chopped apples, walnuts, honey and sweet wine called charoset that symbolizes the mortar used by the slaves; and parsley dipped in salt water.
Knox 2009
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The word "charoset" comes from the Hebrew word cheres which means clay.
BC Bloggers Chow Times 2010
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The word "charoset" comes from the Hebrew word cheres, which means "clay."
J. Weekly 2009
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"We got the charoset which is what you eat with the matzo."
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The word "charoset" comes from the Hebrew word cheres, which means "clay."
J. Weekly 2009
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"We got the charoset which is what you eat with the matzo."
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David and Carol are all over the charoset, the sweet, paste-like substance that's supposed to represent the mortar of the bricks that the Israelites were slaving over in Egypt.
Angela Himsel: Prepared for Passover -- Not! Angela Himsel 2011
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David and Carol are all over the charoset, the sweet, paste-like substance that's supposed to represent the mortar of the bricks that the Israelites were slaving over in Egypt.
Angela Himsel: Prepared for Passover -- Not! Angela Himsel 2011
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My law school friend David Markus wrote on Facebook that, as part of his Passover preparation, he had “charoset marinating.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual 2010
chained_bear commented on the word charoset
"She had never heard of matzo, never tasted the bitter herb, never waited, impatiently, for the moment when she could eat the charoset."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 253
April 16, 2009
reesetee commented on the word charoset
Alternate spellings: haroseth and charoseth.
April 17, 2009