Hi,
Marror is in an odd position in the seder. Marror is meant to
represent the slavery of the Jews in Egypt, and Matzah is meant to
represent redemption, but their order is reversed; we eat Matzah before
we eat Marror!
One could contend that Matzah also represents
bread of affliction and poverty, but Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook offered a
different explanation: Marror indeed represents the bitterness of
slavery, but one can only appreciate the value of that experience, and
the purpose it served, from the hindsight perspective of the Jew who has
already been redeemed from Egypt. Therefore, we first go through
redemption, eating Matzah, and then we contemplate the Marror of our
previous experience.
חג כשר ושמח,
Mordechai
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