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So, thinking about the coming Passover as I like to get as much a head start as possible and the older I get the more time I need! This year It starts on April Fools day not that I find that significant but it goes from 1st to 8th of April (starting on March 31st at sundown).
Anyway I was wondering if any of our members here have ever thought about 'why' all the leavened foods must be removed from the domicile?
Was it not enough to forbid eating it but also the need to have it removed from your dwelling place?
Was it to be done the way it is today, with no crumb left at all?
What about if a mouse sneaks into your house with a bit of bagel he found outside the house? I know you're to burn it but what if it came from one of your gentile neighbors?
And yeast really can't be removed from most places as it is an animal and organism that floats in the air.
And the commandment isn't just to remove the leavened bread but to eat unleavened bread for seven days. So you can't get away with just not eating bread for a week.
Was the removal of the bread to make sure it wasn't handy for anyone to eat? Or was its' presence a problem also?
In this passage there are two commandments
1.Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; (This is a possitive one to eat Matzah)
2.even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses:
for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
So, thinking about the coming Passover as I like to get as much a head start as possible and the older I get the more time I need! This year It starts on April Fools day not that I find that significant but it goes from 1st to 8th of April (starting on March 31st at sundown).
Anyway I was wondering if any of our members here have ever thought about 'why' all the leavened foods must be removed from the domicile?
Was it not enough to forbid eating it but also the need to have it removed from your dwelling place?
Was it to be done the way it is today, with no crumb left at all?
What about if a mouse sneaks into your house with a bit of bagel he found outside the house? I know you're to burn it but what if it came from one of your gentile neighbors?
And yeast really can't be removed from most places as it is an animal and organism that floats in the air.
And the commandment isn't just to remove the leavened bread but to eat unleavened bread for seven days. So you can't get away with just not eating bread for a week.
Was the removal of the bread to make sure it wasn't handy for anyone to eat? Or was its' presence a problem also?
In this passage there are two commandments
1.Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; (This is a possitive one to eat Matzah)
2.even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses:
for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.