On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
Leviticus 23:6
We stopped at some grocery stores while in Israel for food. Chips always make a good snack while on the road, and we found a bag of Doritos with the logo transliterated into Hebrew.
The packaging, while written in Hebrew, was otherwise recognizable. However, there was something a little odd: a tag stuck to it. My limited Hebrew was enough to translate the largest words: “kosher for Passover”. These chips are unleavened!
When the Israelites were redeemed from Egypt, the Lord commanded that they bake bread without yeast. This was to be a lasting ordinance: every year for a week there was to be no leavening found in their homes. The bag of Doritos was stating that its contents met those requirements.
The apostle Paul compared the removing of leaven at Passover to the removal of sin from one’s life (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). Just as the bread at Passover is without yeast, so Jesus was without sin.
Passover begins this Friday at sundown. May we examine our hearts and remove all leavening within.