Pesach Matzah: Bread of Affliction and Freedom

The matzah we eat on Pesach is both the bread of affliction and the bread of freedom, reminding us that sometimes, what oppresses us can also set us free.

Attribution printed on the image: No Rebbe, sefer or individual author is printed on the image.

A reflection on the teaching

The image brings together two ways we speak about matzah at Pesach. Its simplicity recalls affliction and also accompanies the story of freedom. The reflection asks whether a difficult experience can sometimes lead us toward a change we need. That possibility should not be used to call every hardship beneficial or to explain another person's pain. We can ask more modestly what freedom we want to pursue now. The image gives no author for the wording, so it is presented as an unattributed Pesach reflection. Its Hebrew greeting reads: חג כשר ושמח!

Source note: No individual author or sefer is named on this image. The wording is presented without assigning one.