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Time to enjoy the Pashach meal.  Baruch ata Yahweh eloheinu melech ha olam, borei meinei mozenot.

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After performing most of the central mitzvot of the evening (telling the story of the Exodus eating matza and maror, etc.) and just before we are about to enjoy the festive holiday meal, the haggadah structures a moment in which we symbolically repeat the practice of Hillel the Elder who would “wrap” his portion of the paschal offering with matza and maror and eat it as a type of sandwich, in literal fulfillment of the verse “it shall be eaten on...

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Why is it that on all other nights during the year we eat either leavened bread or matza, but on this night we eat only matza? We eat only matzah because our ancestors could not wait for their breads to rise when they were fleeing slavery in Egypt, and so they were flat when they came out of the oven. Why is it that on all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, but on this night we eat bitter...