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Gebrochts

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “known as "matza sh'ruyah”. Today it says “aspect of passover kashrut observed by many in the hasidic jewish community”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Matzo that has absorbed liquid”. It now reads “Matzo that has absorbed liquid Gebrokts or”.
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Gebrochts ( Yiddish : געבראקטס , lit. ' broken ' , also known as Hebrew : מצה שרויה , romanized : matzo shruya , lit. ' soaked matzo ' ) refers to matzo that has absorbed liquid. Avoidance of gebrochts, or "Non Gebrochts", is an aspect of Passover kashrut observed by many in the Hasidic Jewish community, as well as by some other Ashkenazi Jewish groups influenced by Hasidism.

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “known as "matza sh'ruyah”. Today it says “aspect of passover kashrut observed by many in the hasidic jewish community”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Matzo that has absorbed liquid”. It now reads “Matzo that has absorbed liquid Gebrokts or”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

known as "matza sh'ruyah

Now

aspect of passover kashrut observed by many in the hasidic jewish community

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