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What is the purpose of the zeroa (shank bone) on the Seder plate?

April 26, 2017bone holidays plate purpose seder shank

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What is the purpose of the zeroa (shank bone) on the Seder plate?

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by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg addthis_pub = ‘rabbisimcha’; –> function gomprint(Hierarchy, ixObject){ var vwidth = 680; var vheight = 520; var url = ‘/en/article_print.html?h=’ + Hierarchy + ‘&o=’ + ixObject; window.open(url,’print’,’toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=’+vwidth+’,height=’+vheight+’,top=’+((window.screen.height/2)-(vheight/2))+’,left=’+((window.screen.width/2)-(vwidth/2))); } Library » Holidays » Passover » Seder » The Seder Plate | Subscribe | What is RSS? PRINT EMAIL COMMENT The shank bone is put on the Seder plate to commemorate the Paschal Offering which was sacrificed when the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem. Today it is customary by most Jews to use the neck of a chicken instead of a shank bone.1 Footnotes • 1. Since a chicken was not suitable for a Temple sacrifice no one would mistakenly think we are bringing a Paschal Offering outside of the Temple. TAGS: zeroa addthis_pub = ‘rabbisimcha’; new Ajax.Updater(