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Unleavened Bread
UNLEAVENED BREAD. Unleavened bread is bread made without yeast. In the preparation of household bread, a piece of fermented dough from a previous baking was placed in the kneading trough along with fresh flour, kneaded into cakes, and then baked. Unleavened bread lacked the fermented dough. Unleavened bread (מַצּוֹת, literally unleavened cakes) is associated with the elements eaten at Passover, the feast that commemorates the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Only unleavened bread was to be eaten for the seven days that followed Passover (