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When we sit down to the seder, among the most important mitzvot that we fulfill is eating matza and maror. Our tradition is to first make the appropriate blessings (ha-motzi and al akhilat matza) on the matza, then to make the blessing on the maror (al akhilat maror – the blessing of bori pri ha-adama having already been recited on the karpas – and finally to make a sandwich from them together, reminding us of Hillel’s tradition during Temple times.