Taste the Bitterness of Slavery

Before we were free we were slaves, laboring under harsh task-masters in the hot sun. We were toiling for the benefit of others, building beautiful monuments and citites in praise of our Egyptian oppressors.

Tonight we taste the bitterness of that oppression. Maror reminds us that the Egyptians made the lives of our ancestors bitter when they were slaves. Each year, as we sit together at the seder table, we imagine that each of us went out of Egypt. The Torah teaches us, "And you shall explain to your child on that day, it is because of what God did for me when I, myself, went out of Egypt."

(Place maror on matzah and say the blessing together before eating)

Baruch ata Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitsvotav, v'tsivani al achilat maror

We praise You, God, for the commandment to eat maror.


haggadah Section: Maror
Source: Borrowed heavily from A Children's Haggadah, Image credit: Sunset.com