The haggadah instructs us to lift up a broken piece of cardboard-like matzah and say, “If you’re hungry, this is what I’ll feed you, but only half of it, and the smaller half at that!”
Understanding the Bread of Affliction

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Rabbi Adam J. Raskin has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Har Shalom since 2011. He earned his BA in Jewish Studies at The Ohio State University and received the Wexner Graduate Fellowship for his studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and Jerusalem. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
The haggadah instructs us to lift up a broken piece of cardboard-like matzah and say, “If you’re hungry, this is what I’ll feed you, but only half of it, and the smaller half at that!”