Break the middle matzah on the matzah plate.

We break the matzah and hide one part (the Afikomen). We say  “This is the bread of affliction. Let everyone who is hungry come and eat.” We recognize that liberation is made by imperfect people, broken, fragmented — so don’t be waiting until you are totally pure, holy, spiritually centered, and psychologically healthy to get involved in tikkun olam (the healing and repair of the world). It will be imperfect people, wounded healers, who do the healing as we simultaneously work on ourselves.

The Pesach story begins in a broken world, amidst slavery and oppression. The sound of the breaking of the matza sends us into that fractured existence, only to become whole again when we find the broken half, the afikoman, at the end of the Seder.

As we break the Matzah, forgive yourself for anything that you deem broken or cracked within you, and find room for more generosity to yourself and others in the year to come.

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haggadah Section: Yachatz