Take the middle matzah of the three on your Seder plate. Break it into two pieces. Wrap the larger piece, the afikomen, in a napkin and hide it sometime between now and the end of the meal. As you hold up the remaining smaller piece, read these words together:

We now hold up this broken matzah, which so clearly can never be repaired. We eat the smaller part while the larger half remains out of sight and out of reach for now. We begin by eating this bread of affliction and, then, only after we have relived the journey through slavery and the exodus from Egypt, do we eat the afikomen, the bread of our liberation. We see that liberation can come from imperfection and fragmentation. Every day, refugees and asylum seekers across the globe experience the consequences of having their lives ruptured, and, yet, they find ways to pick up the pieces and forge a new, if imperfect, path forward.


haggadah Section: Yachatz
Source: https://www.hias.org/passover