Mystic musings

8. Matzah Chabad.org > How-To:

The Zohar calls matzah "Bread of Faith" and "Bread of Healing". Did I say "faith?" Well, actually, that's a rather feeble translation. "Emunah" is the word in Hebrew, and it means a lot more than "I believe, brother!" Faith can often be something people rely upon when they don't care to think too much. Emunah is when you go beyond thinking and you get somewhere your mind could have never brought you to.

Emunah is when you touch that place where your soul and the essence of the Infinite Light are one. It's a point that nothing can describe. Where there are no words, no doubts, no uncertainty, no confusion--nothing else but a magnificent oneness before which all the challenges of life vanish like a puff of vapor.

Eating matzah is a means of plugging your entire self into that reservoir. Your physical body digests the Emunah of your soul, everything is integrated back into one, your body and spirit are whole and harmonious.