Why do we Break the Middle Matzah

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

okay thank you everybody for joining us tonight we're going to talk about why what's the meaning behind splitting the matzo and get a little bit into the Haggadah and for those are just showing best as I mentioned before we're going to leave a little bit of question and answer time afterwards so about what we talked about or just about about the Haggadah or other things about the seder so please feel free to join us so please feel free to join us afterwards for some questions and answers if you have anything any questions you want to ask so today's topic is why do we break the middle matzah so let's just go go through this very quickly the seder has 15 steps and I'm not going to go into the depth of why we have 15 steps when I talk about that in one of the morning minutes so stay tuned for that but this seder has 15 steps number five the fifth step is yeah cuts is breaking the middle matzah yeah cuts is breaking the middle matzah the question is why is this a step in the Haggadah I understand you know car passed right taking a piece and vegetable and dipping into salt water all right washing our hands now we always wash our hands right but so you know the joke you know there's many more steps to the Haggadah now it's a seder you know there's a Magan rasa Karpis rasa you know yeah it's rough so Magan rough to everything every step you gotta wash your hands you

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