Think Pesach, think Matza!
We eat it when we lean, we eat it sitting straight, we eat it over our haggadah and over our breakfast table too. For 8 days, we'll be tucking into Matzah as it replaces bread on our menu. But Why?
At the very first Seder, whilst the Israelites were still in Egypt God commanded them to eat Matzah with the Pesach offering. The next morning when Pharoah told the Jews to leave Egypt it was such a rush they couldn't wait for their bread to rise, so they took it as Matza.
Every year as we celebrate the redemption from Egypt we do it with Matza.
There is another aspect to Matzah. It has another name Lechem Oni, The Bread of Affliction. It is made out of four and water, the most basic of ingredients, eaten by the broken, the enslaved.
Each year we recall the circumstances that we ate Matzah, before and after the redemption from Egypt. The Matza is a symbol of our freedom from Egypt and the Seder is a time where we look froward to the ultimate redemption. The Matza has been there with us through all these millenia, until we hear the final Shofar blow.
