Ch’ag Hamotzi – Unleavened Bread
Importance: Medium
Mood: Determined; committed to holy living
Background: We don’t have one meeting for this because Ch’ag Hamotzi covers the whole week. Instead, each family may mark the beginning of the week with a special prayer/ritual at supper. Ch’ag Hamotzi commemorates the first seven days of the Exodus when we left Egypt in such a hurry that we did not have time to add yeast to our dough. Biblically speaking, yeast (leaven) can represent sin. So, when we give up yeast for a week, we are re-committing ourselves to walking holy lives.
Practice: During this week we don’t have any leaven or products with leaven in our homes.
Biblical Support: Leviticus 23:5-6 HCSB The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. (6) The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
Mood: Determined; committed to holy living
Background: We don’t have one meeting for this because Ch’ag Hamotzi covers the whole week. Instead, each family may mark the beginning of the week with a special prayer/ritual at supper. Ch’ag Hamotzi commemorates the first seven days of the Exodus when we left Egypt in such a hurry that we did not have time to add yeast to our dough. Biblically speaking, yeast (leaven) can represent sin. So, when we give up yeast for a week, we are re-committing ourselves to walking holy lives.
Practice: During this week we don’t have any leaven or products with leaven in our homes.
Biblical Support: Leviticus 23:5-6 HCSB The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. (6) The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
