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MATZA MEASUREMENT

No matter how hard we have searched, we have never found any evidence that points to extraordinarily large olives in days of yore. Olives have remained pretty much consistently the same size (and there are different sized olives) over the millenia. Similarly, the size of eggs as referenced in rabbinic texts were much smaller than the eggs we buy today. Our chickens have been bred to produce much larger eggs than chickens left to their own devices would have produced.

So how is it that eating as much matzah (to fulfill the mitzvah of eating matzah) as an olive has turned into such a large quantity?

One popular guide to Pesach published by a very large kosher agency states, ” Approximately one-half of an average machine-made matzah, or one-third of a hand-made matzah,” is the correct measure for matzah.

Hey folks- how about approximately one half of a credit card sized piece would be totally sufficient.

There are many of us for whom one half a matzah sheet would be achilah gassah (in a sense over eating), and therefore that can’t be correct.

Do be fooled by the large sizes so called Pesach experts insist upon. Use some common sense!