Passover begins Monday evening this 12 months. The Jewish holiday commemorates the exodus of historical Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Torah.
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The group of D.C.-area first graders had no time to waste — that they had matzo to make.
The college students from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital had simply 18 minutes to prep and cook dinner the cracker-like, unleavened Passover staple in the event that they needed to maintain it kosher for the holiday. It couldn’t be allowed to rise.
Starting in the night of April 22 this 12 months, the main Jewish holiday commemorates the exodus of historical Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Torah.
Observant Jews keep away from leavened grains for Passover as a reminder of the unleavened bread the Israelites ate after they rapidly fled Egypt with no time for dough to rise. Most breads, pastas, truffles and cookies are off-limits, however matzo — or matzah as some translate the Hebrew phrase — is OK.
But the first graders, of their paper hats and blue college T-shirts, didn’t need to face the time crunch on their very own.
Wearing a chef’s hat on high of a matzo-themed kippah, Rabbi Levi Raskin led them by all the steps on Thursday throughout their “Model Matzah Factory” discipline journey. The children, whose college is in D.C., realized all about the historical past of how the pageant is widely known and the story of the exodus.
“As quickly as they combine the flour with water, an 18-minute clock begins,” stated Raskin, who’s director of the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition in Rockville, Maryland.
The heart is a collaboration with Chabad and has outreach with public colleges as nicely. The demonstration features a mini flour mill to grind wheat kernels, an instance of a water nicely, and a piping sizzling oven. While their dough takes about 2 minutes to cook dinner, in an actual matzo manufacturing unit the oven is 2000 levels and is finished in seconds, Raskin stated.
First grade instructor, Dafna Kiverstein, was additionally available to assist the college students roll out dough throughout their discipline journey on Thursday at the JCrafts Center.
The dough unfold as Charlotte Gleicher, 7, guided the rolling pin over it, her fingers flanked by her instructor’s.
Wearing a necklace along with her identify in Hebrew, Charlotte then used a instrument to prickle the dough with small holes, picked up the flattened disc and positioned it by the others ready to be baked into matzo and ultimately eaten. Though she was dissatisfied that she was unable to seek out her private piece after they had been baked, Charlotte preferred the handmade matzo quite a bit.
Passover typically lasts seven days in Israel and eight days elsewhere.
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