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3. How to eat the maror
a. Yereim – One must eat a kezayit, the standard definition of eating.
b. Gemara/Shulchan Aruch – One does not recline when eating the maror.
c. Shulchan Aruch/Mishna Berura – One dips the maror into charoset to remove
the harmful elements and then shakes off some of the charoset.
d. No beracha on vegetables is recited on the maror.
i. Tosafot – The reason is that it is included in foods that are eaten as part of a
meal.
ii. Rosh – The beracha on the Karpas already exempted it.

Korech

1. Gemara – Hillel and Chachamim dispute whether to eat the matza and maror
separately or together. The dispute is not resolved, so we first eat them separately
and then both together.
2. Shulchan Aruch – Rules like the conclusion of the Gemara, and that for Korech we
must eat a kezayit of matza and maror while reclining.

Shulchan Orech

1. Mishna/Shulchan Aruch – The custom in some places is not to eat roast meat on
the Seder night, while in others it is eaten.
2. Mishna Berura – The custom today is not to do so, and pot roast, as well as roast
that was cooked first, are included in the custom.
3. Rema – The custom is to eat eggs either to commemorate the korban pesach that we
no longer bring or as a sign of mourning since Tisha B’av falls out on the same night of
the week.
4. Gra – We do not express mourning on a Yom Tov; eating eggs commemorates
the korban chagiga.
5. Rema – One should not eat or drink too much at the meal to ensure that the
afikoman is eaten with an appetite and that one does not fall asleep from excessive
food or wine.

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