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Weekly Social Justice Torah Commentary
January 28, 2012 PDF/print MP3/podcast
Bo

Passover doesn’t arrive until April, but Parshat Bo already has us thinking about it. In detailing the first Chag haMatzot,[1] the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the parshah establishes perhaps the most fundamental dichotomy of Passover: chametz vs. matzah.

We generally assume chametz and matzah to be opposites, given their oppositional treatment in the text.[2] After all, matzah was the bread baked by our ancestors in their hurried attempt to leave the oppression of Egypt. Matzah reminds us of our last moments of servitude and our narrow,... Read more »

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