THE YAHATZ

RICK RUBIN

Hametz & Matzo are like Ego & Source. Hametz is leavened bread. Soft, tasty, but it consists mostly of empty air after baking. Inflated air symbolizes a distortion of our self-awareness. When fermentation is prevented in baking of Matzo, we’re left with bread that’s more surrendering of itself to Source. Yet also more tuned in. It may not seemingly be as delicious as Hametz. As ‘special.’ But a self that is closer to the undifferentiated universe. Is also paradoxically closer to its differentiated self. “Specialer” and not.

Ye notices Beyoncé & TAYLOR SWIFT enter.

BEYONCÉ

Jay said some healing things were happening here.

TAYLOR SWIFT

So she brought me.

BEYONCÉ

How about us three do another remix of my song…

“Ego”

TAYLOR SWIFT

We got big egos

We got such big egos

But sometimes we need matzos

Just regular matzos

YE

I know you love my huge matzo

TAYLOR SWIFT

Careful, I might break your matzo 

YE

Ha-ha-ha

TAYLOR SWIFT

We like to joke around a bit, but seriously though

BEYONCÉ

OK, Ye, how you doing?

You know I'ma cut right to the chase, huh

All people, were made, but some, like us

We like to think we was created

For a special purpose, ya’ know?

What's more special than us? You feel me?

TAYLOR SWIFT

Oh, he feels you.

BEYONCÉ

OK, Ye, let's talk The Yahatz

Matzo’s, our whole Self, like a baby, mostly Source

But the world, as we age, traps us, in Egypt

That’s Ego, suffering, but that’s, everyone’s trip

YE

Why?

TAYLOR SWIFT

It might, be necessary, to go through, Mitzraim

So we can, break our Egos, and return to, Source

But unlike, as a baby, an adult, in Source

Also has an Ego, so we can, be the best, instrument

YE

For G-d?

Beyoncé & Taylor Swift nod.

TAYLOR SWIFT

I forgive you for your ego

‘Cause I too have such a big ego

EVERYONE

She does too have such a big ego

BEYONCÉ

Ye, can we break this matzo?

Which symbolizes your ego?

EVERYONE

Yes, please for the love of G-d break his matzo!

Taylor & Beyoncé hand Ye the matzo.

YE

We all have such big egos

EVERYONE

But yours especially so!

Ye chooses to pick up the matzos.

YE

So maybe, when it breaks, it causes an Ego death

Like a manic, episode, or a psychotic, break

But I won’t, be Macbeth, I’ll care, for my health

 In return, if you can, sometimes give me, a break

EVERYONE

We all have Egos

Not just musicians

We all could be more like Matzos

Modest, humble, unspecial Matzos

Ye is about to smash the matzos into smithereens…


haggadah Section: Yachatz
Source: from The Meshugah Kanye Haggadah available in full: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNMFVPH