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Yachatz – Breaking the Matzah Step: 5

Locate the
three matzot in
the matzah tosh
for Passover...
Ensure they are
unbroken. Hold
up the matzah
for all to see.

Leader: Yachatz (“divide”) is the fifth step of our Passover seder. Three matzot
have been placed into a special bag (called a matzah tosh) and we will now break
the middle piece. Before we do, however, it is customary to say the following:

~yIr"c.mid> a['ra;B. hn"t'h'b.a; Wlk'ña] yD ay"n>[ am'x.l ah'
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The invitation ha · lachma · anya · dee · akhalu · avhatana · be’ara · de’mitzrayim
to come...
“This is the bread of brokenness which our fathers ate in the land of Egypt.”
All who are hungry -- let them come and eat. All who are needy --
let them come and celebrate the Passover with us.”
The Egyptians
gave their slaves
only matzah to
These three matzot are said to represent Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, respectively. eat.
The middle matzah (representing Isaac) is broken to recall how he was offered
The seder leader
himself in sacrifice in obedience to the will of his father. The binding of Isaac is a takes the middle
clear picture of how Yeshua yielded himself to be sacrificed by God the Father. piece and holds it
up for all to see...

In Hebrew, the middle of something is it’s “heart.” When we break the middle The breaking of
matzah we recall the broken heart of God for the pain Yeshua endured by taking the middle piece
should be done in
our sins upon Him at the cross. Look at the matzah and see that it is striped: “By awe, since it
His stripes we are healed.” Look at the matzah and see that it is pierced: “They represents the
sacrifice of
shall look upon me whom they’ve pierced.” Look at the matzah, and see that it is
Yeshua...
pure, without any trace of leaven, as his body was without any sin.
During the Motzi
Matzah step
Let us pause and be silent for a moment. (The seder leader then says “Yachatz” later, we will
and breaks the matzah in half; he then takes the larger piece (called the Afikoman) partake of the
bread of suffering
and carefully wraps it in a linen cover, symbolizing a burial shroud.) representing
Yeshua’s
Reader 1: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever sacrifice.

believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” - John 3:16 We wrap up and
hide the larger
piece of matzah
Reader 2: “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him at this time...
we might become the righteousness of God.” - 2 Cor. 5:21

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