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First of all, Hillel is NOT credited with having "invented" his way of eating the lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread. A traditional view would say, Hillel was faithfully passing on what HE had learned to do from HIS rabbis, all the way back to Moses! In any case, the very first generation, that of the Exodus, must have done it in one way or another - however Moses, speaking for God, told them to. ...
... They then taught their children, who then taught their children, all the way to Hillel! In other words, assuming that there actually WAS a Moses, who actually DID give the Torah to the people of Israel, and that those people immediately began observing every law, they MUST have had to deal with the details.Each family had to deal with the details. No doubt there quickly arose a normal polite way of eating the meal - although this may have changed many times in the multi-millennium history of the meal. But the existence of such a normal way by no means implies that it goes back to the conscious command of any one person.
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