<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:44 PM, saul mashbaum <<a href="mailto:smash52@netvision.net.il">smash52@netvision.net.il</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br><p>The lechem hapanim was baked in a mold, and could be bent/folded. This is to me a clear indication that "matza" as chazal understood it was like the soft, Sfardi matzot of today, not the hard Ashkenazi type. </p>
<p>Saul Mashbaum</p></div></blockquote><div><br> I am aware that they were baked in a mold but where is the source that said that they could be bent? <br></div></div><br>I could be wrong but menachos that were 'rekikim" seem to me to be wafer like and NOT flexible at all. That does not mean there was no suc hthing as bendable matzo [iow unleavened pita] but I am not convinced that this was EVER the exclusive matza formula...<br>
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