Passover Pesach
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.
Passover, also called Pesach (Biblical Hebrew: חַג הַפֶּסַח, romanized: Ḥag hapPesaḥ, is a major Biblical holiday and one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals. It specifically celebrates the Exodus of Yisroel from slavery in Egypt.
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals include the holidays of Pesach (Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread), Shavuot “the Feast of Weeks” (the celebration which comes once counting 50 days after the Passover), and Sukkot (the Feast of Booths). All of them come with some restrictions regarding work and specific kinds of worship and celebration are required.
Shavuot is also mentioned in Acts chapter 2.
2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
According to the Book of Exodus, GOD commanded Moshe (Moses) to tell the Israelites to slaughter a lamb and mark their doorframes with its blood, in addition to instructions for consuming the lamb that night. For that night, God would send the Angel of Death to bring about the tenth plague, who would smite all the firstborn of Egypt. But when the angel saw the blood on the Israelites’ doorframes, he would pass over their homes so that the plague would not enter (hence the name) PASSOVER.
During Passover, we are not to eat nor possess any “chametz,” food or drink containing wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt or their derivatives that are not blocked from leavening or fermentation. However, we can eat matzah. Some also eat tortillas made from corn. During Passover we can eat corn, rice, beans, and lentils.
Joshua 5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
Wheat, barley, rye, spelt, and oats are the 5 grains which can become chametz when brought in contact with water. These can be breads, rolls, buns, cakes and cookies. There are also many pasta’s such as ramen noodles, spaghetti, and macaroni.
1st Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Yehoshua, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Exodus 12: 19-20 For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel. 20) You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
Luke 22: 15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
Leviticus 23: 4-8 ‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:
5 The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
8 For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ ”
Exodus 12: 13- 15 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance.
15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Owr Bayit Shomer