Why Matzah?
If this is your first seder, or first time eating matzah, you are probably thinking to yourself "cardboard. This tastes like cardboard." Why is it, that at what seems to be a celebration of liberty and freedom do we eat this Matzah?
We eat the matzah as a reminder of where we came from and how we got where we are today. When the Pharoah of Egypt finally agreed to let the Jews go free, the Jews booked it out of Egypt. Because of this high speed escape, it is said that the Jews didn't even have time to finish making bread for the trip, and had to eat it while still un-leavened (hence, the un-leavened bread in front of us today).
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