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Passover Matzah and Maror

שו”תCategory: Talmudic studyPassover Matzah and Maror
asked 2 years ago

Hello, Honorable Rabbi, there is a disagreement between Hillel and the Sages regarding the manner of eating the bittern. Should he combine the bittern with the matzah and the Passover and eat them together, or does the verse only teach about the time of eating the matzah and the bittern, which are to be eaten when the Passover is eaten? I wanted to ask whether in their opinion (both Hillel’s and the Sages’) besides the mitzvah of eating matzah, which is taught from the verse: In the evening you shall eat matzah, there is also a mitzvah to eat matzah, while there is a sacrifice, from the verse: Fire-roasted and matzah on bittern, he shall eat it, or does the second verse refer to the matzah about which we are commanded from the first verse. And in the opinion that these are two different mitzvahs, is it possible to fulfill the obligation of both during the Temple by eating a handful of matzah, according to both the Sages and Hillel, or does he have to eat a handful for each person?
Thank you very much and Happy Passover!

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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago

I’m not sure I understood the question.
There is a separate mitzvah to eat matzah. Maimonides lists two mitzvahs: to eat Passover matzah and bitters, and to eat matzah. Is it possible to fulfill the obligation by eating it with Passover? I do not think so, because the taste of Passover cancels out the taste of matzah, and also because there is no mitzvah to pack packages.
See Rabbi Shilat’s more detailed discussion of this here: http://www.ybm.org.il/Admin/uploaddata/LessonsFiles/Pdf/17951.pdf

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