(19 Mar 2021) LEAD IN:
Ahead of the Jewish Passover holiday, a bakery in Israel's Kfar Habad village makes matza unleavened flatbread as "food for faith".
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With the Jewish Passover festival around the corner, workers at the Chabad matza bakery in Kfar Chabad, in central Israel, are busy making matza crackers.
According to Jewish tradition, this is a time for clearing their homes of all the leavened bread for the holiday which begins on Saturday, March 27.
"This is food for faith," says Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gluckowsky, a religious scholar from Kfar Chabad.
The unleavened cracker is what Jews eat to remember the flight from slavery during biblical times, when the families escaped their homes before the bread had time to rise.
"Just like then, (when) Jewish people went out of bondage, today also, we free ourselves from all the bondage that we're in right now with tremendous faith and with humility. And together with that, we are able to free our spirit and our soul," Gluckowsky says.
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