The unleavened bread eaten on Passover that recalls the Israelite’s hasty escape from Egypt when there was no time for the dough to rise. Matzah is also considered the “bread of our affliction,” eaten while we were slaves.
In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.