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</div>'''Matza''' (also '''Matzah''', '''Matzoh''', or '''Matsah''') [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] {{lang|he|מַצָּה}}, in [[Ashkenazi Hebrew|Ashkenazi]] '''matzo''' or '''matzoh''', and, in [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]], '''matze''') is a cracker-like [[flatbread]] made of white plain [[flour]] and [[water]]. The dough is pricked in several places and not allowed to rise before or during baking, thereby producing a hard, flat [[bread]]. It is similar in preparation to the [[Southwest Asia]]n [[lavash]] and the Indian [[chapati]]

Matza is the substitute for bread during the Jewish holiday of [[Passover]], when eating [[chametz]]—bread and leavened products—is forbidden. Eating matza on the night of the seder is considered a positive [[mitzvah]], i.e., a commandment. In the context of the [[Passover Seder]] meal, certain restrictions additional to the chametz prohibitions are to be met for the matza to be considered "mitzva matza", that is, matza that meets the requirements of the positive commandment to eat matza at the seder. ('''[[Matzah|more...]]''')

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