(Eliahu's cup)
The cup of wine that is placed on the Passover seder table in honor of the Prophet Elijah but is not drunk.
Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal on Elijah’s cup.
Avida, Yehuda Leib. Koso shel Eliyahu Ha-Navi’: Naftulei Minhag Be-hitkamuto [Elijah the Prophet’s Cup: Twists in a Progressing Custom]. Jerusalem, 2013.
Brodt, Eliezer. “The Cup for the Visitor: What Lies Behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?” The Seforim Blog, 2013.https://seforimblog.com/2013/03/the-cup-for-visitor-what-lies-behind/
Steinberg, Bonnie Ann. Elijah’s Cup: A Search for the Origins of a Custom. New York: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Master’s thesis, 1979.
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