Why is leavened bread not kosher

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How to Remove Leaven A thorough search of the house should be made prior to Passover. Places you should look: Every room of the house. Though you may not eat everywhere, food might have been brought there inadvertently. Shelves and cupboards. Including the top of cupboards, if they are used. Cracks, holes, and crevices. Unless they are out of reach. Under beds. Be sure to clean ovens by setting them to the highest heat setting for hours , microwave ovens, refrigerators, and sinks, all closets and counters, pots and utensils.

Wash your table linens and napkins without starch. The Ritual Search On the night of the fourteenth of Nissan, the night before the Passover seder , an intentional, ritual search of the house is performed. Continue Learning. Bread of Immortality. Blood on the Doorposts. Karpas and Joseph's Garment.

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Articles and Studies. Virtual Kollel. Grow and learn daily through interactive video lessons from a variety of teachers. For example: Sinks , refrigerators , ovens , and stoves must be scoured and then not used for at least 24 hours before the beginning of Passover. Specific Passover china must be used. Silverware must be "heated to a glow" and then cooled. Items are placed in a pot of boiling water usually one at a time, because they must not touch each other during the process and then immediately submerged in cold water.

Pots must be cleaned inside and out. To accomplish this, a pot must be filled with water and brought to a boil. Then to clean the outside, a brick or rock is placed inside to cause the boiling water to flow over the sides.

However, said rock must be hot because the water must still be boiling as it cascades over the sides. A cool rock would cool the water when it came in contact. A blowtorch can be used if one is available. Items which seem acceptable for Passover but may not be: Soda: Most sodas contain corn syrup. Since eating corn is a no-no, soda containing corn syrup is also out.

Even if corn syrup is not used, sodas generally have "additional flavorings" which are not divulged and could be derived from grains.

Only sodas produced under supervision of a rabbi or other official certified agencies are acceptable. Since pasta is made from grain and not allowed, neither are most frozen vegetables, unless made under supervision.

Raw vegetables: Some fruits and vegetables cucumbers for example have wax coatings that may be made from soy proteins and oils derived from grain. Sorry, no dice. Dried fruits: These are often dried in ovens where bread is sometimes baked. Some also have waxes, oils, and even traces of flour to prevent sticking.

Made with cane sugar and not high-fructose corn syrup, the imported soda is good to go. Relatedly, what tastes better? Regular Coke or Kosher for Passover Coke? The New Republic did a taste test. For reasons that are unknown to most Jews, some people willingly eat matzo at other times of the year. The difference? Rabbinic supervision to ensure that any matzo made for Passover is untainted by any leavening agents.

There is also a debate over whether egg matzo is allowed. While clearly being verboten for the Passover seder another Torah passage states that only the flour and water version may be used during the ritual , eating egg matzo during the rest of the week is left up to the observant. The New York Times had a good wrap-up of the quinoa loophole, which is rather ingenious. Ashkenazic rabbis never had the chance to exclude it from the holiday, and so by default it became kosher for Passover.

Now concerns are being raised over whether the manufacturing process is clean of any of the banned grains. The Orthodox Union, the authority on such matters, has declared quinoa allowable for consumption during the holiday. The story of how they came to that decision, from NPR:. Another plus for quinoa, says Elefant: "Many rabbis are of the opinion that anything that wasn't part of the original custom is not included in the custom.

All that was left for the rabbis was inspection of factories that package quinoa to see if forbidden grains are processed on the same equipment that processes it. And some passed.