<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="left"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A riddle type question that one can ask is how can one make the berachah hamotzi on the afternoon of erev Pesach (before the tenth hour)? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>At this period one may not eat bread or matzah or even cakes containing matzah meal. (The answer is based on the writings of Rav Ovadiah Yosef regarding erev Pesach which occurs on Shabbos and one wants to make hamotzi at the seudah shlishis.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>One takes a whole matzah and puts it in a hot meat or chicken soup (in a keli rishon), so that it absorbs the taste of the soup. One then takes out the matzos from the soup in one piece. They will then be cooked matzos (which may be eaten on erev Pesach), the pieces of which are larger than a kezayis, and so the berachah will be hamotzi.</span></span></span></p>