Breaking the Matzah

Haggadah Section: Yachatz

Leader: We have drunk the wine and tasted the special foods of the Passover celebration. They symbolize our attachment to the traditions of our culture, to freedom, and to life. To remind us of these values as we go back out into the world, at the end of our festival meal, we shall return to have a final taste of matzah - our symbol of suffering and liberation, of renewal in nature and humanity.

I am breaking this matzah into two pieces. One half I will return to the table.

[Leader breaks a matzah, sets down half, and holds up half as the afikoman.]

The other half I will wrap in a napkin and save until the end of the meal. This piece is called the 'Afikoman'

Without it the seder cannot end, so I must make sure that it does not get lost. Of course, I am very forgetful, so I may need help finding it if I do misplace it. In fact, I manage to lose it every year - it ends up seemingly "hidden" (tsaphun). So just figure that I'll be asking all you younger folks to help me find it pretty soon.

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    Introduction
  • Welcome!
  • Passover For Secular And Humanistic Jews
  • The Humanistic Judaism Seder Plate
  • A Secular Humanistic Passover Blessing
    • Kadesh
  • Humanistic blessing on wine
  • First Cup Of Wine - The Cup of Freedom
    • Urchatz
  • Urchatz: Empowering the Silent
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    • Karpas
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    • Yachatz
  • Breaking the Matzah
    • Maggid - Beginning
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  • Magid
  • A Historical Perspective
    • Commentary / Readings
  • A Modern Maggid
  • Orange
    • -- Four Questions
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    • -- Ten Plagues
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    • Motzi-Matzah
  • Matsah - Unleavened Bread
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    • Koreich
  • Maror, Charoset, Korech: What To Do With Our Bitterness
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  • Let's Eat!
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  • Search for Afikomen
    • Bareich
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  • Elijah the Prophet
  • Fourth Cup Of WIne
    • Nirtzah
  • Land of Milk and Honey
  • Nirtsah - Fulfillment
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  • Declaration of Revolutionary Love
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