“Mah Nishtana Halayla Hazeh Mikol Haleilot…Shebechol haleilot anu ochlin chametz umatzah, halayla hazeh kulo matzah”

“Why is this night different than all other nights? For on all other nights we eat Chametz and Matzah, yet on this night only Matzah?

Why are we now asking why we eat matzah didn’t we already answer this question one paragraph before in the הא לחמא עניא passage? Theהא לחמא עניא follows the יחץ (the breaking of the matzah)– meaning: the paragraph of הא לחמא עניא only explained why we broke the matzah and used the broken piece but the basic concept itself of matzah that has not been explained.

Alternatively, we could answer that the underlying question in the Mah Nishtana is that if the eating is patterned after the Exodus then we should have matzah and chametz for is that not the bread of free people? Therefore we answer that this bread which we eat – it’s because we didn’t have enough time to let the bread rise until Hashem took us out and therefore the very symbol of servitude serves as the symbol of freedom.