Seven Days of Unleavened Bread

Seven Days of Unleavened Bread

Commandment 109
Sh’mot 12:15
¹⁵For a seven day period shall you eat matzos; but on the previous day you shall nullify the leaven from your homes; for anyone who eats leavened food — that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day to the seventh day.

Seven is the number of fullness and completion. The believer who keeps this feast keeps it fully unto HASHEM. The seven-day feast speaks of complete separation from all things that are leavened to feed upon Yeshua who is the believer's bread.

Removing leaven from the house reminds us that we must remove sin from our lives before we can feast at HASHEM's table.

Almost without exception, leaven in scripture is used to symbolize that which is sin.

Yeshua warned of:

The Leaven of Herod

Mark 8:15
¹⁵Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

The Leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees

Mattit'yahu 16:6
⁶Then Yeshua said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
The Pharisees "say and do not". They do not practice what they preach. Thus, although the Pharisees were religious, fasted, tithed, believed in the supernatural, in the sacred Scriptures, they were whited sepulchers. Externally clean but inwardly they were rotten, as dead men's bones.

Hypocrisy works like leaven in a believer's life unless it is purged out and put away. It causes one to be puffed up.

The Hebrew word for leaven, “chametz”, and means bitter or sour. Chametz puffs up whatever it is in, a graphic representation of how pride, one of the basic sins and one of the 7 sins Eloheim hates most (Mizmor 6:16-17), puffs a person up. The matzah eaten at the Seder very flat and contains no leaven. What a picture of our sinless Messiah. Without sin, “He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; upon Him was the punishment that made us whole, and by His stripes we are healed” (Yesha’yahu 53:5). The matzah is pierced and striped!

Rabbi Sha'ul said:

Corinthians Rishon 5:7-8
⁷Get rid of the old chametz, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. ⁸For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed. So let us celebrate the Passover Seder not with leftover chametz, the chametz of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah (unleavened bread) of purity and truth.

Each person coming to the Seder has the responsibility of examining themselves and preparing their herds before HASHEM to having no offense toward Eloheim or man.

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