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Holy Days -
Pesach
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Written by gw
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What happens when you take a slice of challah and squash it in your hand? It obviously turns to mush. Additionally, it's unlike a sponge: it doesn't bounce back to its original shape. Once it has been altered, the challah is left with that lasting imprint on itself. Matzah, on the otherhand, isn't pliable, bendable or cut-able, as is challah, which can be changed from what it is in order to conform to an outside force. What happens if you were to cut a matzah? Or squash it? It refuses to bend and simply crumbles, almost as if refusing to bend on its beliefs to fit the outside force.
It doesn't conform to the pressure of the 'hand' or any other pressures, as would the challah. It refuses to be something it's not and it stands up for what it is. So to, we need to distance ourselves from conforming to whatever forces wish to change us. We need to be like the matzah: non-conforming and ever strong to our beliefs and values.
How else can we remain who we are as a people, as a nation, and simply, as our individual selves?
Let's try to keep this in mind the next time we wonder, 'so why won't my matzah bend in half the way I tell it to?'
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