Bittersweet is a strange word that we just take for granted makes sense. We don't really talk about being happysad or tiredawake the same way. Because bittersweet doesn't mean halfway between bitter and sweet but the kind of sweetness that is also bitter and the kind of bitterness that is also sweet. Something about those to seemingly opposite descriptions somehow allow them to be part of the same experience. I think it is nostalgia. A pain of separation that goes with the sweetness of memory.


haggadah Section: Maror