On all other nights, we eat chametz (leavened foods) and matzah. Why on this night, only matzah?
If we cannot control our own time, we are not free. Matzah represents the forced hurrying of the slave.
Our tradition took this symbol of slavery, of hurry, and made into the symbol of Passover freedom, the bread of affliction. The "hurry up, slave" message of matzah becomes a declaration of freedom for all humanity.
Let us not rush through our lives.
Let us work for freedom.
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