Shulchan Orech (the meal) right|thumb|300px|A Seder table setting The festive meal is eaten. Traditionally it begins with a hard boiled egg dipped in salt water, referencing the charred egg on the Seder plate. In Yiddish, there is a saying: , which means "We set the table and eat the fish".
Shulchan Orech (the meal) right|thumb|300px|A Seder table setting The festive meal is eaten Traditionally it begins with a hard boiled egg dipped in salt water referencing the charred egg on the Seder plate In Yiddish there is a saying  which means "We set the table and eat the fish"