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The Feast of Unleavened Bread

“Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel."

“On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, exept what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you."

“You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening."

“Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is levened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land."

“You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dewlligs you shall eat unleavened bread.”

----Exodus 12:14-20

The children of Israel were redeemed when they left Egypt. In today’s society, many of us were taught that redemption is the end of it all…our responsibility ends with accepting the Messiah and then we are “saved. And it’s partially true: we are now redeemed from the rightful punishment we earned with our sin.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Yeshua HaMashiach our Lord..”—Romans 6:23

However, we are called to walk within the ways of the Almighty. We are to follow Torah and stop sinning “But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.”—Romans 6:22

Continued obedience to the Almighty and His Torah is the major theme of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Where leaven symbolizes our pride and ego, unleavened bread symbolizes our death to self and service to our King. Where leavened bread is puffed up and lacking substance, matzah is humble and sturdy. When we submit to the LORD, we humble ourselves and begin to live as He wants.

“You are to perform My judgements and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God. So you shall keep my statutes and My judgements, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.”

--Leviticus 18:4-5