New reader:

In creating a holiday about the joy of freedom, we turn the story of our bitter history into a sweet celebration. We recognize this by dipping our bitter herbs into the sweet charoset. We don’t totally eradicate the taste of the bitter with the taste of the sweet… but doesn’t the sweet mean more when it’s layered over the bitterness?

The leader raises the maror for all to see and recites:

Blessed are You, Adonai, our God, Sovereign of the universe, who has commanded us to eat bitter herbs.

baruch atah adonai aloheynu melech ha'olam asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav v'tseevanu al-achilat maror.

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל־אֲכִילַת מָרוֹר׃

Source: opensiddur.org, "Haggadah for Pesach"

Eat the maror.


haggadah Section: Maror