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Amaizing Hand Made Holy Land Gifts Ceramic Passover Elijah Cup white Saucer Height: 6.7" / 17 cm Diameter of Saucer: 5.3" / 13.5 cm One of the most beautiful customs of the Passover Seder is to designate a cup of wine for Elijah the Prophet who is believed to visit every Jewish home on this night. Throughout history Jews have tended to use a special cup that they set aside all year just for this purpose. This year add some colorful style to your holiday table with this beautiful Elijah Cup featuring the Hebrew and English words for "Elijah Cup" surrounded by a classic Armenian floral design. Your family will love it! Manufacturing Process: Each individual item is hand made with ceramic clay. Once complete it is placed in an oven at temp. 1000°C until hardened.Each piece is then hand painted using metallic and oxidized paint in order to keep its natural color. Again it is returned to the oven at the same temperature and finished with fine glazing. Wine Cup Passover, Ceramic Elijah, 7' high Ceramic Traditional Elijah cup for Passover. The statement on the cup says Elijah's Cup in both Hebrew and English. The Wine Cup (Chalice) Chalice (from Latin calix, cup, borrowed from Greek kalyx, shell, husk) is a wine cup/goblet intended to hold drink. In general religious terms, it is intended for quaffing during a ceremony. In the Christian tradition the Holy Chalice is the vessel which Jesus used at the Last Supper to serve the wine. New Testament texts make no mention of the cup except within the context of the Last Supper and give no significance whatever to the object itself. Herbert Thurston in 1908 concluded that 'No reliable tradition has been preserved to us regarding the vessel used by Christ at the Last Supper.' In the sixth and seventh centuries pilgrims to Jerusalem were led to believe that the actual chalice was still venerated in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, having within it the sponge which was presented to Our Savior on Calvary. Several surviving st
