Zeroa (Hebrew:זרוֹע) is alambshank bone or roastchicken wing or neck used onPassover and placed on theSeder plate. It symbolizes thekorban Pesach (Pesach sacrifice), a lamb that was offered in theTemple in Jerusalem, then roasted (70 CE) during thedestruction of the Temple, thez'roa serves as a visual reminder of the Pesach sacrifice. InAshkenazi and manySephardi families, it is not eaten or handled during the Seder, as it represents a sacrifice made at the Temple, but is not actually, making it taboo to eat.[1]Vegetarians often substitute abeet, quotingPesachim 114b as justification.[2]
The origin of the custom comes from theGemara in the tractatePesachim of theBabylonian Talmud and theJerusalem Talmud, which discuss the question of what are those two dishes that theMishnah says one must bring to theSeder night. According to the Gemara, the two dishes are the Zeroa of thePassover sacrifice and an Beitza (egg) as a symbol of the Chagigah offering.[3][4]
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