Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread. The universality of the command — wherever you live — anticipates the diaspora. Israel will not always be in one place. The feast of Unleavened Bread is not tied to the land of Israel or the tabernacle; it is carried by the people wherever they go. The portable nature of the feast is part of its genius as a covenant practice: it survives exile, displacement, scattering. Daniel in Babylon, Esther in Persia, the Jews of the diaspora — all can observe the feast of Unleavened Bread wherever they live, because it requires no temple, no priest, no specific geography — only the willingness to remove the yeast and eat the unleavened bread in memory of what God did.

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