Sentence examples for bread of affliction from inspiring English sources

It is a ceremony replete with symbolic foods (bitter herbs, invoking the bitterness of slavery; matzo, the bread of affliction) and ritual acts (hand-washing, blessings over wine).

At the opening of the Seder, the leader holds up a piece of matza, unleavened bread, and speaks in ancient Aramaic, "This is the bread of affliction that our fathers ate in the land of Egypt.

While admiring of the matzoh-makers, Thurber and Allen lamented the rise of the industrialization of the bread of affliction: In the early centuries, the perforation of matzoth was an artistic job.

According to Jonathan Sarna, a Brandeis University history professor and author of the 2005 lecture "How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States," Manischewitz, an immigrant from present-day Lithuania, was one of many nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who attempted to unite the Industrial Revolution and the "bread of affliction".

One could discover, in Rabbi Hoffman's essay and commentary, how Jewish and Christian influences have been entwined — "like a double helix," he says — in the relationship between Passover and Easter and between the unleavened matzoh, "the bread of affliction," and the Eucharist.

I know the bread of affliction is unleavened because we're supposed to be remembering the time constraints our people were under as they fled Egypt, but would it not be more in the spirit of Judaism to honor our ancestors with matzo that's sturdy enough to withstand the force of a schmear?

"Eating and storytelling are inseparable — the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction".

"Eating and storytelling are inseparable the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction".

But it also suffers its own brand of affliction.

This is an entirely unprecedented category of affliction for me.

Of the days of affliction, there shall be no end.