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March 26, 2021

The Seder Is Not the Time to Apologize for the Defeat of the Egyptians

The real reason for spilling wine from the cup.

At the Passover seder, there is a venerable custom for each participant to dab some wine out of his cup with a finger at the mention of each of the ten plagues. Stuart Halpern notes that the widely quoted explanation for this practice has no basis in traditional texts:

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