from  "Earth Justice Seder" Haggadah

We sit tonight in a place of both freedom and comfort, while we remember the bitterness of the hardships of our ancestors.

The great sage Hillel provided us with the tradition of constructing the Hillel sandwich, combining the bitterness of the maror with the sweetness of the charoset between the fortitude of the two pieces of matzah--the symbol of freedom. Through this ritual, we think about mortar and brick. We think of the Israelites traveling through the desert with no homes, no place to land and build up their strong communities, and only the matzah as a reminder of their freedom. It is not until they came to the biblical Promised Land that they experienced the sweetness of their redemption.


haggadah Section: Koreich
Source: Earth Justice Seder