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The CRC sent out an email saying that soft matzah is not acceptable for Ashkenazim. The person who knows a great deal about soft matzah is Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky. A google search for Zivotofsky soft matza yields</div>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:-1px" class="title ov-h"><a style="line-height:1.3" class=" ac-algo fz-l ac-21th lh-24" href="http://halachicadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Journal-of-contemporary-socienty-and-halacha-soft-matzah.pdf" target="_blank" data-e0b="604f983e94b87">The
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<p class="fz-ms lh-1_43x">of<b> Soft Matzah</b> Rabbi Dr. Ari Z<b> Zivotofsky</b> Dr. Ari Greenspan Introduction The Torah (Shmot 12:18) commands all Jews, men and women alike, to eat<b> matzah</b> on the first night of Pesach; yet nowhere does it explain how
to make this required product or how it should look. For most Jews today,<b> matzah</b> is a thin,
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<p class="fz-ms lh-1_43x">Ari<b> Zivotofsky,</b> Ph.D., is a rabbi and shoḥetand teaches in the Bar Ilan University brain science program. Together they have been researching mesorah, history and halakhah from Jewish communities around the world for over 30
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Thin and Hard vs. Thick and Soft Ari Zivotofsky</a></h3>
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<p class="fz-ms lh-1_43x">Ari<b> Zivotofsky</b> (biblical mitzvah to eat<b> matzah</b> on the first night of Pesach – what is it?) ש ד ח ל ם י ר ש ע ו ד ח א ה ם ו י ד ע ת צ מ ו ל כ א ת ב ר ע ב ש ד ח ל ם ו י ר ש ע ה ע ב ר א ב ן ש א בר
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