t seems fashionable these days to bring something new to the Passover Seder table and Seder plate. Well, I would like to weigh in on this with the suggestion for the newest addition to the Seder plate, the Bay Leaf.” This would be a non-edible spice that would represent freedom from ridicule , especially rabbinic ridicule. Let me explain, this was a story told to me by a friend who has been a very active participant in his synagogue (these days that seems so very hard to find). He attends the weekday minyanim and has been a volunteer cook for all the events throughout the year with those occasions being breakfasts for the Sunday and Friday minyanim, for Tu B’shevat Sedarim, monthly Shabbat dinners and the annual Chanukah gathering. This past December as this gentleman was preparing for the Chanukah event, he brought in from his home a food processor, which he kept at home, using only for synagogue events, respecting the kashrut of the synag...
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