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Eating Out With Kosher Meals

By Douglas Richardson


Eating out the Jewish way has never been easier especially if one lives in a neighbourhood with a strong Jewish community. Kosher meals are to be had as a take out or just sitting down and enjoying favourite specialities in this type of cuisine. Over Passover, Jews the world over partake of meals such as chicken soup with kneidlach amongst many others.

Each season and each festival has its speciality meals and can be obtained by just searching on the Internet. Passover for one is a festival that is celebrated all over the world and with it, food is king as usual. It is a festival celebrated by all and falls into the season of spring and autumn for the southern hemisphere and is celebrated over the month of Nissan.

It is the story well known among Jews as the time when the Israelites were liberated from Egyptian slavery under the guidance of Moses. It is alluded to in a book known as the Haggadah which is read at the Seder table on the first two nights of this festival for Jews outside of Israel and one night should one live in Israel itself. It is the story of the plagues that were wrought by G-d on the Egyptians right up until the giving of the Five Books of Moses at Mount Sinai.

This is the time when the Israelites came out of slavery having served the Egyptians for almost four hundred years. They were lead out by Moses and shown a new set of laws that is believed was handed down from G-d to Moses on Mount Sinai. Food is always king and at this time there is no exception to the many dishes that are served at this time.

Because the Israelites had to leave Egypt in a hurry, the bread that they were baking for the journey did not have time to rise. Thus it is eaten during this time to commemorate just that and no other risen bread is allowed to be consumed. This unleavened bread must be baked by Jews alone in order to render it kosher.

Apart from this, at the Seder meal, other food items are consumed such as Haroseth. This is a mixture of almonds, wine and nuts that symbolizes the mortar that was needed in construction of the many different buildings the Jews of that time were forced to build as slaves. It is eaten with matzah to commemorate the difficult times that they laboured in Egypt.

Other foods that are eaten are gefilte fish with chrain. Gefilte fish is a fish ball essentially and is eaten with horseradish. The horseradish is bitter to commemorate the bitter lives that were lived during this time and to remind the Jewish people of today the hard times that Jews have had to live through throughout the millennia.

It is a time of rejoicing and it is celebrated as a time of freedom by many. Apart from this the story alludes to the entire story of the Exodus from Egypt and also makes mention of the victory G-d had over the Egyptians at the Red Sea where it parted and the Israelites were allowed to pass unscathed as opposed to the Egyptian army that perished there. It is a time to celebrate and eat well.




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