Having taken into the account the lives and beliefs of the Moritz family, I have chosen to depict an important yearly event, celebrated under the roof of Linden. The picture is of Pesach (Passover), where the family got together to celebrate their freedom and to remember the past. Through the Seder (order) plate, the past is remembered to the time when Mosses led his people from slavery in Egypt towards freedom. You may have seen the movie The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston. The meal is based around the Passover plate that contains six vessels each containing symbolic foods:

Harroset a paste of spices, grated apple, nuts and sweet wine that represents mortar, the work of slavery
Z'roa (burnt shank bone) represents trust and hope, the sacrificial lamb
Maror (bitter herbs) often horseradish, to represent the bitterness of slavery
Beitzah (burnt egg) sacrifice and mourning loss of the Temple of Jerusalem
Karpes (parsley or celery) used to paint lamb's blood over the door marking Jewish homes when the Angel of Death (foretold by Moses as the 10th Plague) passes over, thus protecting the firstborn Jewish male child
Matzos 3 Matzot or unleavened bread symbolising the bread that was baked on the heads of the people as they fled, the dough not having time to rise
Salt water representing the sweat and tears of slavery

It is not the dinner service but the food that holds the order and symbols of the celebration; the dinner set is a reflection of assimilation into other cultures. It is the food that is the structure and base of the celebration, it can migrate into other cultures whilst remaining true to itself.

'To sit around a table and talk about ideas is living in freedom'. Discussing freedom, slavery is a manner of celebrating the fact one has the freedom to discuss. It is a way of talking about one self at the same time.

Unlike my Anglo Christmas experience which is about gathering together with family but as far as preserving a culture, it is lacking. And as the years go by it's mutating into an ugly consumer celebration, which contains very little connection to its origin.