When Is Matzo Traditionally Eaten?
One of the Religion's Most Iconic Holiday Foods Is Eaten During the Weeklong Spring Festival Known as Passover, Which Commemorates the Israelites' Departure...
One of the religion's most iconic holiday foods is eaten during the weeklong spring festival known as Passover, which commemorates the Israelites' departure from ancient Egypt. Available in sheet or meal form, matzo becomes ubiquitous around the holiday, making appearances in appetizers, main courses and even desserts.
When can you eat matzo?
From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day, you are to eat matzo. You are not to eat any chametz with it; for seven days you are to eat with it matzo, the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste.
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Do you have to eat matzah during Passover?
The obligation is to consume matzo during the Seder. But for some reason, she said, many Jewish cooks who bake maybe once a month when it's not Passover, will bake with matzo nearly every day during Passover. “You don't have to eat matzo at every meal,” she reminds.
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