The Jewish Passover festival commemorates and celebrates, the Exodus of the Israelites from their slavery under the tyranny of the Egyptians. God freed the Jewish People after sending ten plagues to terrorise the Egyptian people and the Pharaoh. The Israelites daubed lambs blood (in the sign of a cross) on their front doors so that when the Angel of Death, sent by God, soared over the land of Egypt their infants were left un-harmed while every first born child of the Egyptians was killed!
The Israelites then escaped from Egypt through the River Jordan and wandered the desert for forty years. The Jewish families of today celebrate this escape from slavery every spring during the Passover festival. This is a very significant event, and several religious symbols are used to represent different parts of their escape. One of the most important symbols used are Seder Plates, these specialist plates can be obtained from professional companies such as cazenovejudaica.com/uk/seder-plate and are used to serve six particular foods for the Jewish families to share.
The six foods served on a Seder Plate are, a shank bone or Zeroa, a roasted, hard-boiled egg or Beitzah, bitter herbs, or Maror, a vegetable, or Karpas, and a sweet paste called Haroset. All these foods have specific symbolic meanings, such as the bitterness of slavery and the blood of the lamb, and are very important parts of the Passover Festival.