PassoverPassover is an exciting time that we celebrate the deliverance from slavery and bondage. It is a feast that uses specific foods to guide us through the story of what it means to live in bondage and what it means to be free.
We celebrate Passover by first purging our home of all leavened products. For specific instructions as to what it means to kosher your home for passover visit http://kosher4passover.com/kashering.htm On the evening before the day of Passover on the calendar, we celebrate together the Passover Seder: a feast meal in which we tell the story of deliverance. Then on the second night, many families repeat the same service in their homes. It is night of joy and hospitality and there are often guests who have never participated in the festival before. |
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The Festival of Unleavened Bread is part of the Passover celebration but a distinct element in which we eat only foods with matzah (a flat cracker) for the entire week after the Passover feast. We are reminded that while our deliverance is complete, it is a process. It is easy for us to look back on the pleasures and carnality we enjoyed while in bondage and yearn for those things, though they ultimately draw us to our own destruction. The Festival of Unleavened Bread is a time a devoting ourselves to purity and replacing the "leaven" in our lives with holiness in ways that can be unexpectedly delicious.
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