Connecting Passover with Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah)

[The Omer Project]

Dear friends,

There is a traditional connection between Sukkot and Tu B'shvat: saving the Sukkot etrog for jam on Tu B'shvat.  It occurred to me that a similar food connection could be made between Passover and Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah)...

Matzo symbolizes the bread of affliction.  On Rosh Hashanah, for Tashlich, bread crumbs, our "sins", are cast into the living water.  I connect the two by saving some matzo (usually from the afikomen) from Passover to toss into the water for Tashlich.  My errors and missing the mark could be seen as an affliction of the soul.  This way I rid myself of these afflictions using the bread of affliction.

Going the other way, I save an apple from Rosh Hashanah and make charoset of it for Passover.  I use the sweetness of the new year for the sweetness of the freedom from slavery.  (This does require a freezer.)

And the circle is complete!

...Be Seeing You...Maggid Raja...