Passover questions?

Question

1.Why is the bread unleavened at passover
2. And can you explain what Jews do to celebrate
Thankyou!

Answer 1

The bread is unleavened because Passover is the holiday that celebrates the freeing of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. They supposedly did not have time while they were fleeing the Egyptians to wait for the bread to rise, so they baked it under the sun as flatbread to eat on their journey.

The celebration begins by ridding the house of all leavened bread (a major cleaning job). The dishes that are to be used are kept separate from normal use and are brought out once the kitchen is cleaned. Then preparations are made for a feast at which the story of the exodus is told. This feast is called a Seder, which means "order." During the Seder, four questions are asked about what is different on this night from all others in the year. The questions are answered through the story. Because the holiday is a spring holiday, symbols consist of spring vegetables dipped in salt water (to remind one of the tears shed from those hard times), bitter herbs (like horse radish root) that symbolize the bitterness of the toil and slavery, charoseth (a mixture of ground up nuts and apples mixed with wine and honey) that symbolizes the mortar used in the buildings that the Jews had to build, and of course the unleavened bread called matzah. There are lots of songs, lots of good food, and it is a very joyful holiday.

There are lots of sites on the web that will tell you more. Here is one:

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach.asp?AID=1845&404=1

p.s., it is one of my favorite holidays in the year!

Answer 2

First responder is not correct. The bread is unleavened because the story was that the Jews had to leave Egypt in haste and there was not time to prepare risen bread for the journey. A major part of the celebration is the Seder, the ritual dinner at which the unleavened bread is eaten.

Answer 3

I'm not Jewish, but I'll try and answer! Ok, when the Jews were fleeing Egypt, they never had time to bake proper bread...so that's why it's unleavened!

I hope that helped, even though it wasn't much! You can google Passover

Answer 4

The bread is unleavened as a symbol of sinlessness. It represents the sinlessness of the Messiah and the goal of the Godly to live a sinless life.

I don't know the Jewish rites of the Passover celebration/Seder.

Answer 5

the bread is unleven at passover because the jews had to leave so quickly they didn't have time to make bread or secure their levening agents, and had to live off bread without any yeast for the time they were in the desert. They teach this in sunday school in most good christian churches.

Answer 6

the bread is unleavened, because leaven or yeast represents sin or corruption.
I don't know how Jews celebrate it sorry

Answer 7

sympathet ,hit the answer spot on .that is the true story of the passover.from mikhal in israel.