Editing Eating Matzah (section)

== Source of the Mitzvah ==
It is a positive commandment from the Torah to eat matzah on the night of the 15th of Nissan, which is the Seder night, as the verse states:<blockquote>"On the first [day] on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat matzos" — Shemos 12:18</blockquote>The obligation to eat matzah is mentioned in additional places in the Torah: "In the second month, on the fourteenth day, at dusk, they shall make it; with matzos and bitter herbs shall they eat it" (from this verse we learn that the Pesach offering must be eaten together with matzos and maror). "You shall not eat leaven with it; for seven days you shall eat with it matzos, the bread of affliction, for in haste you went out of the land of Mitzrayim, so that you shall remember the day of your departure from the land of Mitzrayim all the days of your life<ref>Bamidbar 9:11</ref>."

However, the main obligation is learned from the verse "in the evening, you shall eat matzos<ref>See Rambam Hilchos Chametz U'Matzah Chapter 6 Halacha 1 and in the Lechem Mishneh there, and in the citation of the Gemara later in the text.</ref>."