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Step #4: Messianic understanding
The broken piece of matzah is called the “Lechem Oni” (bread of affliction). It represents the death of Yeshua on the tree. Wrapping the broken piece of matzah in a napkin represents the burial of the Messiah.
Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste …
1 Corinthians 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.