The salt water on the Passover table is underrated as a symbol. It's lesson is not about hardship or bitterness which can be temporary reminders but about life itself. On one hand, salt water represents tears and too much salt can even be like poison. And yet, salt is a source of life, which begins not in fresh water, but in the depths of the oceans. What is dry and without flavor can sustain us but it takes more than that to produce new life.


haggadah Section: Karpas