Eating a sandwich of matzah and bitter herb | koreich | כּוֹרֵךְ

When the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the biggest ritual of them all was eating the lamb offered as the pesach or Passover sacrifice. The great sage Hillel would put the meat in a sandwich made of matzah, along with some of the bitter herbs. While we do not make sacrifices any more – and, in fact, some Jews have a custom of purposely avoiding lamb during the seder so that it is not mistaken as a sacrifice – we honor this custom by eating a sandwich of the remaining matzah and bitter herbs. Some people will also include charoset in the sandwich to remind us that God’s kindness helped relieve the bitterness of slavery.

DIRECTIONS:

The leader breaks the bottom matzah and give everyone two pieces. Everyone puts the maror between the pieces of matzah and adds haroseth if they wish. Then everyone recites:

In the time of the temple in ancient Israel the famous wise man Hillel would make a sandwich of lamb, Matzah, and Maror and eat them together, as it said: "They shall eat it with Matzah and bitter herbs." This is to remind us that Jews have invented everything and that because they were full of it, they had to leave Egypt in a hurry, without time to make cholent, which takes 24 hours. So, they made sandwiches, what else!

DIRECTIONS:

NOW we can eat.


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