Children bake handmade matzah at Chabad’s Model Matzah Bakery event

Brighton, NY — Dozens of youngsters and their households participated in a hands-on lesson in Passover traditions at the Jewish Community Center on Sunday, the place they rolled up their sleeves to bake matzah.

For the forty second yr, Chabad Lubavitch introduced its Passover instructional expertise, the Model Matzah Bakery, giving youngsters an opportunity to handcraft their very own matzah — the particular unleavened bread Jews eat on Passover to commemorate the hasty departure from Egypt, when there was no time to bake common leavened bread.

The bakery is modeled on an genuine Shmurah handmade matzah bakery and is designed to supply firsthand publicity to how matzah is made.

Participants baked their very own matzah and witnessed the complete course of.

“We’ve been doing this since 1983,” mentioned Rabbi Nechemia Vogel. “It’s really an opportunity for kids and grown ups to really make their own matzah. The matzah that we make is for Passover but it’s a model bakery and they get the sense of what matzah is and how it’s made and why it’s made and the difference between matzah and bread. It’s a fun experience and really brings the holiday alive for people.”

Organizers mentioned the venture is designed to be a household expertise, permitting mother and father and kids to study collectively whereas participating within the conventional mitzvah, or observance of matzah.

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