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charoseth

or cha·ro·set

[ Sephardic Hebrew khah-roh-set; Ashkenazic Hebrew khah-roh-sis ]

noun

, Hebrew.


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Example Sentences

The Matzoth will be baked especially for us, and Gregorovius, of Unter den Linden, shall provide the apples for the Charoseth.

The golden shells at the four corners contained the Charoseth, the bitter herbs, the egg roasted in ashes, and the salt water.

As for that wherein Christ dipped the sop, they take it to have been the sauce which was used in the paschal supper, called charoseth, of which the Hebrews write, that it was made of the palm tree branches, or of dry figs, or of raisins, which they stamped and mixed with vinegar till it was thick as mustard, and made like clay, in memory of the clay wherein they wrought in Egypt, and that they used to dip both the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs into this sauce.

So he set a supper fit for a king: the fore-leg of a sheep and the fore-leg of an ox, the egg roasted in ashes, the balls of Charoseth, the three Mitzvoth, and the wine, And by the time the supper was ready the midwife had been summoned, and it was the day of the night of the Seder.

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