Pesach: The Matzah That Changes Meaning

Why do we eat Matzah? It turns out, we change our minds about it.

There is a way that I have always understood the seder, to be two concepts competing throughout the evening: Remembering Slavery and Celebrating Freedom. There are things we do to remember the bitterness of slavery, most famously the marror. There are things we do to celebrate freedom, like eat and drink and recline. In fact, a good key for knowing whet…