The next few weeks leading up to Holy Week, we will be learning about Passover and the Seder Meal.
Passover, the English term for Pesach, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and remembers the Jewish exodus from Egypt. Passover is celebrated for 8 days (some 7), families tell the story of the exodus, and avoid all leavened grain products.
This week, we learned about the biblical story where Moses parts the Red Sea to allow the freed Jewish slaves to escape from Egypt. As we told the story, we made a great fun scene to recreate the story.
At the beginning of Message Experience, we learned how to make unleavened bread. The Bible tells us that the Israelites were to eat only unleavened bread every year during Passover as a commemoration of the Exodus from Egyptian bondage. Since the children of Israel left Egypt hastily, they did not have time for the bread to rise, so it was made on that very first Passover without leaven, also known as yeast. In describing this bread and why it was eaten, the Bible informs us of the following: “Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 16:3).
Next week, we will learn more about the Seder Meal.
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