Countdown to Pesach 24: Parsley Karpas

When one looks carefully at parsley, one notices that each stem has multiple green flowers growing, often six or seven flowers per stem. This reminds us of the Midrash that accounts for the exponential growth of the Jewish people from the paltry 70 souls who entered

Egypt to the teeming 600,000 males between the ages of twenty and sixty who exited Egypt, by suggesting that the women of Israel gave birth to six children, sextuplets, at a time. (Machberes Avodas Hashem)