Matzo Ball Matzo Ball The Matzo Ball is an annual Christmas Eve nightlife event and party held in a number of major cities in the United States and Canada targeted primarily at young Jewish singles and organized by the Society of Young Jewish Professionals. The name of the event is frequently styled as MatzoBall or misspelled as Matzah Ball or MatzahBall. There are a number of competing social events in Jewish communities throughout the U.S. and Canada held that same night. In addition, Matzo Ball and similar spellings are also used as the names for a variety of other, unrelated Jewish community
Matzo actually one of the five grains (it may be a mistranslation), so those who can have wheat matzo should do so. "Matzo" is mentioned in the Torah several times in relation to The Exodus from Egypt: There are numerous explanations behind the symbolism of matzo. One is historical: Passover is a commemoration of the exodus from Egypt. The biblical narrative relates that the Israelites left Egypt in such haste they could not wait for their bread dough to rise; the bread, when baked, was matzo. (Exodus 12:39). The other reason for eating matzo is symbolic: On the one hand, matzo