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  • (Everyone now takes a small piece of "karpas" and dips it in salt water on the table and eats it.)

    Alec Sokolow: Haggadah Get Out Of This Place 2009

  • (Everyone now takes a small piece of "karpas" and dips it in salt water on the table and eats it.)

    Alec Sokolow: The Audacity to Haggadah 2009

  • Since the brothers had to explain Joseph's sudden disappearance, they dipped his special coat of striped colors that his father had given him (the very word karpas is used in Megillat Esther

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • Since the brothers had to explain Joseph's sudden disappearance, they dipped his special coat of striped colors that his father had given him (the very word karpas is used in Megillat Esther

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • Placed on the plate are a roasted egg to signify rebirth in spring, karpas (parsley) to signify the springtime, a roasted lamb shank to signify the paschal sacrifice that Jews used to offer in the ancient Temple, maror (a bitter herb, such as horseradish) to signify the bitterness of slavery, and Chazeret, a second bitter herb to represent the bitterness.

    Happy Passover פֶּסַח 2009

  • The children dipped the karpas (parsley) and the egg (and probably just about everything on the table) in the salt water.

    The Jew and the Carrot Nancy Wolfson 2010

  • The fact that we do have "dips" as a kind of forshpeis to our seder meal is certainly in keeping with the Passover feast, but why our specific dips of first the karpas (green vegetable) and then the bitter herbs in charoset?

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • Hence, some Jews have the tradition of dipping the karpas not only in salt-water, symbolizing the tears that the Jewish people shed, but also in the red charoset, which according to the Jerusalem Talmud symbolizes blood, expressing the tragedy of Jewish internal hatred, the root cause of our exiles and persecutions.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • For instance, along with the blessing for karpas, or the green vegetable, the Haggadah notes that low-income families often eschew buying fresh fruits and vegetables in favor of less expensive packaged foods.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • For instance, along with the blessing for karpas, or the green vegetable, the Haggadah notes that low-income families often eschew buying fresh fruits and vegetables in favor of less expensive packaged foods.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

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  • From the Wikipedia entry: "Karpas is one of the traditional rituals in the Passover Seder. It refers to the vegetable, usually parsley or celery, that is dipped in liquid (usually salt water) and eaten."

    June 5, 2011