PASSOVER -- Question # 3
3. On all other nights we don't dip our vegetables/parsley in salt water, but on this night we dip them twice.
The vegetables are dipped in salt water to remind us of the tears of slavery.
“Our fathers dipped hyssop branches into the blood of the Passover lamb, that they might mark their doorposts.”
Dipping a parsley sprig into the salt water, it continues. “As they wept salty tears for their life of slavery, they, in faith, painted the door lintels with the blood, that the Angel of Death may pass over. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.”
Dipping the parsley again, this time into a small glass dish of apple and raisins. “But now we have hope. Because of the blood shed by the thorns piercing Jesus’ brow. Because of the blood from the wounds of the nails, that we, in faith, mark on the door of our hearts. Now we wipe away our tears, for we have glorious, endless new life in Christ. We have been rebirthed into His hope.”
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