In order to tell the story, the matza must be broken. In part because lechem oni  is the bread of affliction it is fitting to eat this bread of poverty, broken. And in part because lechem oni  is the bread of answers, the beginning of our search for new ways to tell the story. That searching can not be done unless there is a way to break out of our assumptions. A way to let in something new. Or, in the spirit of Leonard Cohen, to find "the crack... that lets the light get in"


haggadah Section: Yachatz