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Thu Apr 10 15:59:49 PDT 2014
of his haggadah
http://www.davka.org/
"In "The History of Horseradish as the Bitter Herb of
Passover", Gesher (Bridging the Spectrum of Orthodox
Jewish Scholarship), vol. 8 (issue number unclear), the
author Arthur Schaffer (then a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Horticulture, Rutgers University), makes it
clear that horseradish could not be the bitter herb
mentioned
in the Bible (aside from it being sharp (jarif) and not
bitter
(mar). Other sources suggest that horehound, an herb,
which
has a bitter taste is the actual item mentioned. An
additional
hint that horehound is Maror is its role as a chest
decongestant, something that would be efficacious during
the
early spring with flowing pollen."
Selene, Caid
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