Matzah Maror and the Wrap of Hillel

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 197:6

"Roasted by fire, and matzot" (Exodus 12:8). The verse tells us that the commandment of the Pesach is matzah, roasted meat, and bitter herbs. And from where do we know that if a person has no matzah and bitter herbs, they nonetheless fulfill their obligation with the Pesach? The verse teaches, "they shall eat it." And from where do we know that if they have no Pesach offering, they fulfill their obligation with matzah and bitter herbs? You may reason thus: since the Pesach is a positive commandment, and matzah and bitter herbs are a positive commandment, then just as you have learned that if they have no matzah and bitter herbs they fulfill their obligation with the Pesach, so too if they have no Pesach they fulfill their obligation with matzah and bitter herbs. Another interpretation: "they shall eat it." From here the sages said the Pesach is eaten as an eating to satiety. It was taught: They said of Hillel that he would wrap them together and eat them, to fulfill what is stated, "with matzot and bitter herbs they shall eat it" (Exodus 12:8 / Numbers 9:11). Rabbi Yochanan said: Hillel's colleagues disagree with him, for it was taught: One might think a person does not fulfill the obligation unless he wraps them together and eats them in the manner that Hillel ate them. The verse teaches, "with matzot and bitter herbs they shall eat it," meaning even this one by itself and that one by itself. And now that the law has not been stated either in accordance with this master or with that master, one recites the blessing over the matzah alone and eats it, then recites the blessing over the bitter herb alone and eats it, and then eats matzah and bitter herb together without a blessing, as a remembrance of the Temple, in the manner of Hillel.

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