Daily Halacha Podcast - Daily Halacha By Rabbi Eli J. Mansour

The work Yalkut Yosef (English edition, p. 262) records a custom to eat a boiled egg immediately after Kiddush at the Seder, in commemoration of the Korban Hagiga, a sacrifice which was brought along with the Korban Pesah in the times of the Bet Ha'mikdash. This is not, however, the custom we follow. We eat the egg just before the meal, after we complete Maggid and eat the Masa, Marror and Korech. This way, we avoid the Halachic issues concerning the quantity we are allowed to eat and the recitation of Beracha Aharona that would arise if we would eat an egg after Kiddush. Many commentators addressed the question of why an egg was chosen as the means by which we commemorate the Hagiga offering. Clearly, no eggs were ever brought as a sacrifice. Why do we commemorate this sacrifice with an egg? Some scholars suggested that an egg is used for this purpose because it is the food traditionally fed to mourners, Heaven forbid. The reason why we cannot bring the holiday sacrifices is because the Bet Ha'mikdash was de