Are Lentils A Jewish Food?
Jews eat lentils as a traditional mourning meal. The round lentil symbolizes death, as it rolls, so death, sorrow, and mourning are constantly occurring among men, from one to the other, according to Rabbi Louis Ginzberg in The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1.
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