Matzah (plural is Matzot) is the Hebrew word for unleavened bread and is eaten by Jews during the festival of Passover.
Matzoh which is unleavened bread.
eat and break bread .... well, not exactly bread. This is the "matzoh" holiday - unleavened bread (a lot like a cracker). Traditionally we do not eat bread, or anything leavened, for the entire 8 days of passover.
its made up. Its actually bread without yeast( like what Jews have as a substitute for bread during passover)
Matzo, which is unleavened bread.
One of the 3 pieces of Matza - usually the middle one is used for Yachatz - the 4th part of the Seder - where the middle Matza is broken into 2 uneven pieces. The larger piece is kept for the Afikomen-dessert and the smaller piece - symbolizing Matza as the bread of affliction is kept on the Seder plate. Every meal on a Shabbat and Jewish festival requires 2 whole loaves of bread to be used during HaMotzi - the blessing over bread. Since on Passover bread is substituted with Matza, so we need 2 whole Matzot on the Seder plate. So we need 3 Matzot on the Seder plate: 2 for the HaMotzi, and one to be broken.
because during the passover the people didnt have time to put leavening in their bread, which is what made the bread rise.
the Jewish custom of serving only unleavened bread during Passover season
Because when the Jews let Egypt, they left in haste, and as story tells us, they carried their dough on their backs through the desert, where it baked into unleavened bread. So during Passover, we only eat unleavened bread as a reminder of this. The Torah contains a Divine commandment to eat matzo, specifically, on the first night of Passover and to eat only unleavened bread (in practice, matzo) during the entire week of Passover. Hope this helps!
As unleavened bread.See also:More about Passover
I ate the last piece of matzoh bread during Passover.
The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread, celebrated by the Israelites, commemorated their liberation from slavery in Egypt. During Passover, families were required to sacrifice a lamb and mark their doorposts with its blood to be spared from the final plague. They were also instructed to eat unleavened bread and bitter herbs, symbolizing their haste in leaving Egypt and the bitterness of slavery. The Feast of Unleavened Bread followed, during which they had to remove all leaven from their homes and eat only unleavened bread for seven days.