On Seder night we take three unleavened bread, break one in half and use it for Afikoman, leaving two whole unleavened bread. It should be made difficult why one matzah is broken and used for afikoman, why not leave all the matzah intact or take the whole matzah for afikoman?
One can interpret and say a great foundation, a person has a war on three fronts in faith: for what has passed, for what will be and for what is happening now. Whatever happened - it's always easy for people to talk about the past that it was good and believed it was good, at the end of everything people admit that everything is from God and everything is for the best, that's how most of the world is. About whatever happens - everyone is in good hope, thinking and praying that it will be good. But about what What is happening now is the most difficult thing to be strengthened in faith and the great struggle that the evil instinct tries to discourage a person in faith.
That is why we take three unleavened bread, the upper one symbolizes the past and therefore remains intact, the lower unleavened bread symbolizes the future and therefore it also remains intact, the middle unleavened bread which symbolizes the present - It is broken in half, for the sake of faith. The struggle of faith in G-d is broken in half, because every day there a person's faith in G-d must be strong.
It is said about Rabbi Galanti, who was a supreme saint, that there was a year of drought with the people of Israel In sorrow and distress that it did not rain. The ruler of Jerusalem, who hated the Jews very much, called them and said that if it did not rain, he would expel all the Jews from Jerusalem. He announced that early in the morning they would go to the tomb of Shimon the righteous to pray there. Because of the great faith he had that God would answer and it would rain, he told everyone to come with winter clothes, coats, scarves, and boots.
Everyone believed in the Lord, even though it was a very hot day and it would not have seemed like it would rain in reality. On the way to the grave, a policeman stopped all the people who were with Rabbi Galanti asked them where they were going in this way, Rabbi Galanti replied that they were going to pray and make it rain. The policeman scorned them and struck Rabbi Galanti in the face and continued to pray in the Zion of Shimon the righteous and said that he did not leave the Zion until it rained. that the heavens opened and it rained.
It is a strong faith that a person believes that there will be a strong salvation, a person who prays and says 'if it will be good', this is not a strong faith. To see salvation even if he sees that it does not seem to be salvation, the person has to live the salvation and the faith very strongly. That is why the middle matza is cut and not the upper matza, which is not a problem and everyone believes, in the end they say that everything is from
heaven The lower one is about the future, everyone prays and is full of hope that everything will be good. The middle matzah is about the present, which is broken because there the faith is always damaged and it needs to be strengthened, like Rabbi Galanti, even if there is sun and you don't see that rain will come, a person has to have strong faith and walk with the umbrella And the winter clothes because it rained, this is a great faith and the faith of the sages.
One should know that the experience of this generation is an experience of faith, Passover is a holiday of faith. The greatness of this holiday - "And we believed in the Lord and in Moses served him" (Shemot Yad, no.
When one prays and believes with perfect faith, then the person sees salvation and a great heavenly cause in things that even if it doesn't rain, go out with rain clothes because it is certain that it will rain. If a person is this sure and believes this way then he sees great salvation. Like the children of Israel who were in Egypt, our holy sages say that the children of Israel did the Seder night, sat down and ate the Passover sacrifice, before God redeemed them and brought them out of Egypt, by behaving innocently and as those who have already been redeemed, with this power God brought salvation and redeemed the children of Israel .
A person should go with faith to the end with great innocence, even if it seems wrong and difficult for him, even if it brings him enemies and haters, he should have an innocent faith to the end. You need to know when a person has people who make him sad, that this is part of his ascension, our holy sages say that the high waves in the sea are created by a wind that comes against the water so there will be a high wave. Anything against which something comes rises up. Every time there is something against holiness and purity, it's a sign that it's real and that's how you rise and rise higher. We will strengthen our faith in God with innocence and thus we will achieve the greatest and highest achievements.
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel