The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated by Leo Rosten
Author:Leo Rosten
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307566041
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2010-04-14T04:00:00+00:00
Pronounced MOTT-seh (not MOTT-so), to rhyme with “lotsa.” Hebrew: The plural in Hebrew is matzot, pronounced MOTT-sez in Yiddish.
Unleavened bread (it comes in thin, flat, ridgy oblongs and is semi-perforated to facilitate neat breaking).
During Passover, no bread, yeast, or leavened products are eaten. Matzo commemorates the kind of unleavened bread the Jews, fleeing from Egypt in the thirteenth century B.C.E., ate because they could not pause in their perilous flight long enough to wait for the dough to rise. Exodus 12:15: “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread….” The passage is very severe about those who eat bread during the holiday: “that soul shall be cut off from Israel.”
Today, matzo is enjoyed all year round and is served in many restaurants.*
The following story has nothing to do with matzo but may give you an irreverent slant on Exodus. It is Hollywood’s version of the flight from Egypt:
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