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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/06-31-14.jpeg16201080At the end of the meal, we eat the afikoman. “Afikoman” was a Greek word referring to the sweet dessert at the end of a meal. During Temple times, the meal would conclude instead with the meat of the Paschal offering. Even though it was not sweet, people loved the mitzva so much they referred to it as the afikoman. After eating the Paschal offering, people would not eat anything else, so the taste from the mitzva would remain in their mouths for the rest of the night. Following the destruction of the Temple, and to commemorate the Paschal offering, the Sages instituted concluding the meal with matza. This is what we call the afikoman today. It should be eaten when people are already full, but not so full they cannot enjoy eating it. Each person should eat a third of a machine shmura matza to fulfill the obligation of ...