The Passover Bread — Matzah 🍞 During the Passover meal, the Israelites ate unleavened bread called matzah, made without yeast to remember how they left Egypt in haste (Exodus 12:39). Yeast represents sin, so this pure, flat bread symbolizes a life cleansed and set apart by God. Prophetically, the matzah points to Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb. It is pierced and striped when baked — a shadow of the One who was “pierced for our transgressions and by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). At