Getting Ready for 8 Days of Matzoh
“They tried to kill us . . . they failed . . . let’s eat!”
–old joke about what all Jewish holidays have in common.
The catch with the Jewish holiday of Passover — which starts tonight and lasts 8 days — is that no leavened bread is to be eaten.
That’s to commemorate the Jews’ hasty exodus from Egypt, which didn’t allow time for regular bread-baking.
Instead, the departing Jews ate matzoh, a sort of flatbread/cracker.
Fast forward a couple millennia, and lots of Jewish families try to squeeze in a pre-Passover slice of pizza or similar before the holiday officially begins (that’s my 3 kids and nephew earlier today, pictured above).
