Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

For today's 10-minute halacha shiur, we're going to discuss things that people get wrong at the Seder, that are misconceptions about the Seder night.

This is not an exhaustive list, but it's all the things that I could think of this morning as I was trying to put a list together.

So we're not going to spend much time on each of them.

I put together a list of 13 items that I think people make mistakes about at the Seder.

First item, and this is not an order either.

I forgot to arrange it chronologically in terms of the Seder.

First item I have on the list is in terms of the ingredients for haroses.

So everyone knows that you're supposed to put a tapuach in the charosis.

What a lot of people don't realize is that tapuach in biblical and Mishnei Hebrew does not mean apple.

Tapuach actually means, probably means a citrus fruit.

It means something like that.

It may mean an apricot, an esrog, different suggestions.

Apples did not grow in Eretz Yisrael.

in the times of the Mishnah, nor in the times of Tanakh, so it's very unlikely that tepulach means an apple.

So really the ideal thing to use for charosis, to put it in the charosis, is some type of citrus fruit, maybe an orange, lemon, something like that, but probably not an apple.

I believe Sephardim do not put apples in their charosis, I could be wrong about that, but I think there are those that have a miracle not to put apples in their charosis.

So that is

Number one.

Second item on the list, we're just going to be going down the list, we'll see if it takes us ten minutes.

Second item on the list is a lot of people make a mistake about the sheer kezias, about how big a kezias actually is.