The Meaning of Matza: Freedom Can't Wait

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The opening of this shiur, in Charlie Harary’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

one of the most recognizable Jewish items is matzo I mean what's more Jewish than matzo it is so up there with the shofar menorah of course matzo ball soup matzo is the center of the Seder and the symbol of Passover so why do we eat matzah well a long time ago when the Jews leaving Egypt there wasn't enough time to bake bread they were so busy rushing that they threw the dough on their backs and baked into crackers and we eat matzah because of this what could that be God shows up in Egypt and proves 10 of the coolest plagues ever blood frogs lice locusts darkness by the time the Jews are ready to leave he turned the entire country upside down and all of that and he couldn't arrange for the day in which we leave late check-out I mean maybe giving us like an hour heads up that by the way at noon shuttles leaving for the Promised Land we have to run out like fugitives what could we leave like normal people and yet this despicable difficulty of not having enough time to bake bread this is the symbol of exodus of freedom of Independence Judaism is not commemorative religion don't do things because we did them a long time ago it's dynamic it's relevant if we have a custom not a living history we're using history as a window into something much deeper to better our lives today Egypt is both a historical place and an everyday reality in Hebrew the name is Mitch shrine which has the word make sound which means constraints we all

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1. 0:00one of the most recognizable Jewish items is matzo I mean what's more Jewish than matzo…
2. 0:34frogs lice locusts darkness by the time the Jews are ready to leave he turned the…
3. 1:04the symbol of exodus of freedom of Independence Judaism is not commemorative religion don't do things…
4. 1:37have constraints aspects of our lives that are lacking areas in which we feel unable to…
5. 2:08there's a moment that requires us to step up at work at home and faith or…
6. 2:40themselves we're stuck we know we should do it we don't want to you should make…
7. 3:13guilt later is the first step to never matzo doesn't just commemorate how we left Egypt…
8. 3:48maybe that's why those are the symbols of Passover the holiday of freedom because they remind…

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