In eating this sandwich, we recall the sage Hillel who, in remembrance of the loss of the Temple in the 1st century BCE, created the Korech sandwich. He said that by eating the Korech, we would taste the bitterness of slavery mixed with the sweetness of freedom. This practice suggests that part of the challenge of living is to taste freedom even in the midst of oppression, and to be ever conscious of the oppression of others even when we feel that we are free.



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