What does the lettuce on the seder plate represent?

Answer 1

Because it represents bitterness, the bitterness of the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt. Romain lettuce specifically is used, because if left in the ground it gets bitter, and the Jews slavery was the same way. First they were coerced to helping out to build in Egypt, for a good salary, and slowly were forced into slaves.

Answer 2

Certain types of lettuce are used as the bitter herb which forms an important symbolic part of the Seder. Bitter herbs represent the bitterness of the Hebrew's enslavement in Egypt, as is recalled in Exodus 1:14: "And they embittered (ve-yimareru וימררו) their lives with hard labor, with mortar and with bricks and with all manner of labor in the field; any labor that they made them do was with hard labor".

Answer 3

It is actually considered an alternate form of bitter herb, though it's not used in the Seder.

Answer 4

The lettuce represents, at one end the bitter of slaveryand at the other end, sweet like freedom

Answer 5

In the seder meal the bitter herb represents the bitter taste of slavery and affliction. In some homes parsley is used because it looks similar to a flail.

Answer 6

Bitter lettuce is used on the Seder plate, symbolizing the bitter slavery.