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WE EAT A SANDWICH OF MATZAH AND MAROR

(Distribute pieces of maror and the bottom matzah.)

Back in the days of yore,1 Rabbi Hillel was famous for many things—his wisdom, inventing both the Golden Rule and the Five-Second Rule, and possessing the ability to belch the entire Hebrew alphabet (including the vowels). But perhaps more than anything, he was notorious for spending Passover walking around the Temple in Jerusalem eating delicious sandwiches made of Pesach (the lamb offering), matzah, and maror. Hillel was renowned as a just and generous man, but if you asked him for a bite of that Passover sandwich, he would kick you in the face. Nowadays, we do not bring sacrifices to the Temple,2 so our sandwich is made only with matzah and maror. This is known as the Great Outrage.