We make a sandwhich with the bitter herbs (maror) and the sweet charoset. You might be thinking, "Why would we make such a weird sandwhich?" We eat this sandwhich, which is sometimes called a Hillel sandwhich because our celebration is both sweet and bitter, or bittersweet. It is sweet because we celebrate being freed from salvery in Egypt. But there is bitterness, too. The bitterness is both the bitterness of slavery and the sadness we feel at the cost of our freedom. For us to be freed, the Egyptians had to experience suffering, and we are never fully happy when someone else has to suffer. 


haggadah Section: Koreich