Romaine Lettuce for Maror
Sephardic + modern preference for romaine over horseradish — claim that lettuce was the original Mishnaic maror.
Sephardic + modern preference for romaine over horseradish — claim that lettuce was the original Mishnaic maror.
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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim · Joseph Karo · c. 1563 CE
A custom, especially among Sephardic Jews, to use romaine lettuce instead of horseradish for maror (bitter herbs) at the Passover Seder, based on the view that lettuce was the original bitter herb men
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Chazon Ovadia · Ovadia Yosef
A custom, especially among Sephardic Jews, to use romaine lettuce instead of horseradish for maror (bitter herbs) at the Passover Seder, based on the view that lettuce was the original bitter herb men
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Yalkut Yosef · Yitzchak Yosef
A custom, especially among Sephardic Jews, to use romaine lettuce instead of horseradish for maror (bitter herbs) at the Passover Seder, based on the view that lettuce was the original bitter herb men
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