Passover

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The Passover is performed by the slaughtering of the Lamb.

In the afternoon, on the 14th Day of the 1st Month of the Hebrew Calendar.

In the Homes or in a Gathering Place, when you come together and stay there until morning. 

The Meal containing the Passover sacrifice, the roasted lamb, unleavened bread and bitter herb.

After sundown, at the beginning of the 15th Day.

Only those in Covenant with Torah.

• The Passover Meal, is a covenant meal, therefore only those walking in the covenant of Torah and those circumcised (whether physically or of the heart), can partake in the Passover Sacrifice (The Lamb).
• No son of a stranger is to eat of it. Ex. 12:43
• A sojourner and a hired servant does not eat of it. Ex. 12:45
• And when a stranger sojourns with you and shall perform the Pěsaḥ to יהוה, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and perform it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But let no uncircumcised eat of it. There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among you. Ex. 12:48-49

Who Cannot: (These CANNOT perform the sacrifice nor eat of it)

• No son of a Stranger. Exodus 12:43
  • Nekar (נֵכָר ) - A Foreigner, an Alien, a Stranger. A heathen.
  • An Israelite who has become apostate - one who desecrates the Sabbath or denies the validity of the Torah commands.
• Sojourner or a Gentile traveling through.
• A Sojourner or Hired Servant who is not circumcised. Exodus 12:45, 48
  • Vs. 45 - Toshav (תּוֹשָׁב) - A Sojourner, resident alien (A non-Israelite who lives in the land of Israel), temporary dweller.
  • Vs. 48 - Ger (גֵּר) - Sojourner, stranger, foreigner, alien, a guest.

Who Can: (These CAN perform the sacrifice and eat of it)

• A Servant, who is circumcised (who is in covenant). Exodus 12:44
• All the Congregation of Israel shall keep it, perform it. Exodus 12:47
• A Sojourner (Ger) who is circumcised, one who has chosen to be in covenant with Torah, a proselyte. Exodus 12:48
• Only those in Covenant with Yehovah can partake. There is one Torah for both the Native and the Stranger (Ger). Exodus 12:49 

• While a Christian does Believe in Messiah Yeshua, non-torah observant Christians are not walking in covenant with Torah, as they choose not to keep His commands, in regard to observing the Sabbath, The Feasts, and Biblical Eating.
• The Fact that they also choose to observe Pagan Man-made traditions and holidays like “Easter”, Christmas, etc… also invalidates them from participating. (This includes us, we cannot participate in such events)
• The Passover Meal, is a covenant meal, therefore only those walking in the covenant of Torah and those circumcised (whether physically or of the heart), can partake in the Passover Sacrifice (The Lamb).
• While Gentiles are prohibited from partaking in the Lamb, it is between you and Yehovah if you allow any friends or family to partake in other aspects of the Passover Meal such as, the matzah, maror.

Matza, akin to bread, serves as a fundamental component of daily meals. Approximately 250 years ago, it resembled and possessed the texture of a large pita. Nevertheless, in contrast to the bread we commonly know, it has not undergone the process of leavening.

Leavening refers to the transformation that dough undergoes when influenced by yeast, a microscopic living organism. Under optimal conditions of warmth and moisture, yeast interacts with the dough, consuming it, multiplying, and generating several by-products, such as alcohol and carbon dioxide gas.

Chamets refers to dough that has undergone the process of fermentation, resulting in leavening.

Yeast, during its metabolic process, generates carbon dioxide gas, which is the same gas responsible for the effervescence in soft drinks. In a liquid medium, this gas can easily escape; however, in dough, which is dense and adhesive due to its gluten content, the gas becomes confined. Consequently, the dough contains numerous tiny bubbles of trapped gas. This phenomenon causes the dough to expand and contributes to the characteristic sponge-like texture of bread.

Simply because God instructed us to do so Exodus 12:18-20, Num. 28:16-25.

Matza has consistently been characterized in our traditions and Halachic discussions as a soft, chewy bread resembling pita. There is no reference within our traditions that depicts Matza as a hard, dry cracker. The Gemara and Halacha specify that Matza should be approximately 8 cm thick, which would necessitate the use of a hammer if it were to be baked to a hard consistency.

For the person who could not make it to the Passover, because they were traveling, or for someone who was ritually unclean at the moment.

What do you do when Passover Falls on a Saturday Night, and Passover Eve falls on a Shabbat? 

The Rabbinites will tell you that all the Passover prep must be completed on Friday before Shabbat, yet their own writings tell us that The Paschal Lamb Sacrifice overrides Shabbat.

Shabbat: Weekly Rest

“On the Shabbat, you are to present two flawless male lambs a year old, along with two tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil and its drink offering. This is the burnt offering for every Shabbat, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. Numbers 28:9-10

“The first day is to be a holy assembly for you as well as the seventh day. No manner of work is to be done on those days, except what is to be eaten by every person—that alone may be prepared by you.” Exodus 12:16

* Yes, you can cook on Saturday in preparation for Passover, as long as it's only the what is to be eaten by everyone at the Passover Meal.

* Likewise, Exodus 12:16, also gives allowance for the same on the first an last day of Unleavened Bread.