Some do not get the chance to rise and spread out like golden loaves of challah, filled with sweet raisins and crowned with shiny braids.
Rushed, neglected, not kneaded by caring hands, we grow up afraid that any touch may cause a break. There are some ingredients we never receive.
Tonight, let us bless our cracked surfaces and sharp edges, unafraid to see our brittleness and brave enough to see our beauty.
Reaching for wholeness, let us piece together the parts of ourselves we have found, and honor all that is still hidden. 

— Tamara Cohen
 

Break the middle matzah. Put the smaller half back between the two whole matzot. Hide the bigger half or put it aside. Some try to break the matzah into the shape of a dalet and a yud, to spell dai, די, “enough” and yad, יד, “hand.”
 


haggadah Section: Yachatz
Source: Min Ha-Meitzar: An Abolitionist Haggadah from the Narrow Place by Noraa Kaplan