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Why is the matzo called them such bread or allowed them
to eat such bread because it would
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to digest and so they
This is the term given to the take longer
again as soon
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matzo in the Bible (Deuteronomy would not be hungry
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16:3). The term "Lekhem Oni" as one who eats leavened bread
means "the bread over which there and so they would eat less. It is
possible
that
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called
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is much discussion" (Baba, p ew,. also
kim 115b). The word "Oni" thus "bread of affliction" because the
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comes from a root meaning "te, Israelites could not afford to wait
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answer" and its use in conjunc- the time it takes for the bread to
tion with the matzo signifies that rise since they had to return to
many questions are asked and their tasks in the shortest period
answers are given over the mat- of time. In this same vein, some
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given at the seder table. A second bread they ate when they were
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meaning of the term is "the bread about to depart from Egypt.
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of the poor." This is supposed to cause Pharaoh had made them
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be the meaning of the term as it rush to eat without giving their fi
bread
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during
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Mishna (Pesalcim 10:4). From a
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its baking like the poor man who over supper and distinguish it from
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