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Have you ever wondered why we specifically break the MIDDLE Matzah during the Seder?
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Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, our Managing Director of Communal Engagement, shares a very interesting thought to answer this question.
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We break the middle matzah because
matzah is described [music] as a lechem
oni, a poor man's bread. Poor man's
bread is not whole. It's always [music]
missing something. Always striving for
something more.
We break that middle matzah because the
matzah that comes before has to do with
our past. We have confidence in our
past. We have a wholeness [music]
to our foundation. We have the matzah
that comes afterwards, a matzah of our
future. We have the promise and
aspiration [music] for redemption. But
the journey sometimes has moments that
are broke. Sometimes has moments that we
take [music] the other half of the
matzah, hide it away, where we have to
search and search and search for the
redemption [music] of the Jewish people.
A redemption that will ultimately be
realized at the end of the Seder when
that second [music] half of that middle
matzah reemerges as our afikoman. And
that is what we take with us beyond
[music] the Seder into the redemption
and the future of the Jewish people.