I thought maybe I had already asked this, but I don't remember any replies.
When the Israelites left Egypt, Scriptire says they packed their unleavened DOUGH since the kneading troughs were packed. This means the dough had plenty of time whole they hiked to collect yeast from the air. So, my question is this: is sourdough or poolish the only leavening we are to get rid of annually, or do we need to toss out nutritional yeast, baking soda, baking powder, yeast extract, baking yeast, brewer's yeast, and some even say, milk? We've always gotten out everything but the milk, just to be safe, but I've really been questioning this over the past year. Don't the rabbis go too far by requiring matzah be cooked within 15 minutes and have holes poked in it? The Israelites wouldn't have had time to do this poking, either, as they traveled.
David Martin
Delete Comment
Are you sure that you want to delete this comment ?
GidgetsMom
Delete Comment
Are you sure that you want to delete this comment ?
GidgetsMom
Delete Comment
Are you sure that you want to delete this comment ?
Steph
Delete Comment
Are you sure that you want to delete this comment ?
Rhy Bezuidenhout
Exodus 12:15 (ESV):
"Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel."
Exodus 13:7 (ESV):
"Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory."
These verses are part of the instructions given to the Israelites regarding the observance of the Passover festival and includes the removal of the leaven from our houses.
My interpretation is that it is about the yeast being a living thing that makes the dough rise.
1. We therefore remove all kinds of yeast (including brewer's yeast as it can still be used in baking) and leavened dough products from our house.
2. Rising agents like Baking Powder is a chemical agent activated by temperature, so we do not remove Baking Powder ourselves.
3. If something like yeast extract or nutritional yeast can’t make dough rise then we don’t remove it as it is no longer a live raising agent. My thinking is that these products represents the consequence of sin (as the yeast represents sin in our lives) as it is no longer alive (an active unforgiven sin), but the consequences are still with us.
Delete Comment
Are you sure that you want to delete this comment ?