LEADER: "On all other nights , we don't even dip once, but on this night we dip twice." While the Temple yet stood, Rabbi Hillel introduced a custom of his own into the Seder service: he would put together a piece of the Passover offering, a piece of matzah and a piece of the bitter herb, and eat all three together, in accordance with the verse in Scripture: "They shall eat it upon unleavened bread and bitter herbs." Over the centuries, we have added the charoset - the sweet apple mixture - to our Seder elements to symbolize the mortar with which the Israelites toiled to build Pharaoh 's treasure cities. Let us again put some horseradish on a piece of matzah, but this time, let us dip a second time into the sweet charoset, and remember that even bitter circumstances are sweetened by the hope we have in God. Let's all eat together.

This mixture of charoset and horseradish on matzah is sometimes eaten as a snack during the week of Unleavened Bread and called a "Hillel Sandwich."


haggadah Section: Koreich