Sentence examples for bitter herbs from inspiring English sources

It is a ceremony replete with symbolic foods (bitter herbs, invoking the bitterness of slavery; matzo, the bread of affliction) and ritual acts (hand-washing, blessings over wine).

This is usually romaine, which like the bitter herbs symbolizes the bitterness of slavery.

And so we eat the bitter herbs (maror) symbolic of bitterness; and drink wine while reclining, symbolic of our freedom.

At Passover, Jewish people eat bitter herbs as a reminder of the bitterness of slavery.

When we eat the bitter herbs, we awaken our conscience to the bitterness felt by oppressed people around the world experience today.

Egyptian-Jewish food writer Claudia Roden explains the importance of bitterness in her life – and offers Mark a taste of some rather bitter herbs.

Bitter herbs are somewhat gay.

He sandwiched bitter herbs inside unleavened bread, or matzah.

Uncooked collard greens play the role of the bitter herbs.

Mr. Weiss, however, had something besides bitter herbs in mind.

A veloute of bitter herbs sparkled with clear, insistent flavor.