Q. Our tradition is not to eat matza for thirty days before Pesach. Since this year we will be traveling right after Shabbos and we offer shaleshudes in shul for a simcha, and it will be hard to clean after Shabbos, can we eat on Shabbos machine matza that is also gebrochts in soup or similar and say birchas hamozon on it, since it is not the matza that we eat during Pesach and it is also not real chometz we are so very careful with?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one can indeed make some large chalos (Shabbos Bread) made of matza mixed with eggs, that although one may not recite usually Hamotzi on them, yet if one eats enough of them (Shiur Kevias Seuda) one washes hands and recites Hamotzi and Birchas Hamazon. And as mentioned, it is not a bread that conflicts with the regular matza and some avoid thirty days before Pesach.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a