Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Had he known lechem hapanim was matzah?

Well, obviously, we know that it's matzah, but the greatest riot that it's matzah is, they had it year-round.

You're never allowed to leave the shulchan empty from lechem hapanim.

So, they had it on Pesach also.

Had they ever on Pesach,

This is matzah, it wasn't chametz.

So the Gemara says, Rav Yosef, you can't compare the two, because the Lech Mapanim, the Kohanim were in charge of that, and Kohanim was reasoned, they're going to be very careful to make sure that there's no chimutz.

But you can't trust just regular people to ensure that there's no chimutz if they're making something a tefach thik.

So Rav Yosef disagrees.

So he does not think that it's a tefach thik, it's something less than that.

The Orzeruah quotes from Rabbeinu Aviyah Ezri,

He says, you're not allowed to make a teffach.

You have to make it less than a teffach.

We Paschal like Rav Yosef.

We reject the idea that you're allowed to make matzos that are a teffach thick.

And in fact, Yosef quotes this as well, that you're not allowed to make matzos that are a teffach thick, but less than a teffach.

is okay.

Now, still, this is way, way thicker than the Svartimatzes.

So, in later Tzkufos, they started to make thinner matzos.

Why did they start making thinner matzos?