Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

The Mishnah of Masech HaSubsachim lists off five vegetables that are kosher to use for Maror.

Lettuce is number one on the list.

We are confident we know what the number one thing is.

That is lettuce, and that is chassah.

In fact, we just said in Shira last week, the Sefer HaChinuch writes that it's a hider mitzvah to use lettuce for Maruk because it's called chassah.

And chassah reminds us that So in the shame of the vegetable, there's a hider.

It's a very interesting Kiddush that you not only have hider in a chavtah shal mitzvah, not only a hider in a maisel mitzvah, you actually have a hider in a kavana in the mitzvah, that it's a hider mitzvah.

To use lettuce, that is the ideal thing to use from art.

Now it should be noted there are many posts that held that if lettuce doesn't taste bitter, that you shouldn't use it and you should use something that actually tastes bitter.

There are other posts that had reservations about lettuce because of the bug.

issues and problems.

But pashut pshad, just pashut reading of the Mishnah, lettuce is the real morar.

You then have to figure out if there's enough evidence to say that maybe you can be Yotze with horseradish as well.

Some suggest horseradish is also on the list of the Mishnah.

Others say that horseradish is not one of the vegetables on the list of the Mishnah.

It's just the only thing we had.

We didn't have any of the vegetables on the list of the Mishnah.

Okay, so you've got to figure that out also.

But real morar is the lettuce.

Another misconception.