Why is no leavening used on Passover?

Answer 1

Before I can answer your question, you need to know the Story of Passover. Here it is:

The Jewish people were all taken into slavery by the Egyptians (Exodus ch.1). They built storage-cities for the Pharaoh and rich families. Their working conditions were very bad. They were whipped (Exodus ch.2 and ch.5) when their speed lagged, or when their work wasn't satisfactory, or even just because the whippers were bored and felt like it.

Moses was a Jew who had been adopted by pharaoh's daughter (Moses in the basket). At one point, Moses saw a Egyptian beating a Jew and killed the Egyptian. He was sentenced to death and fled to Midian (Exodus ch.2).

God, who had become furious with the way His people were treated, commanded Moses to go to the Pharaoh and ask for his people to be freed (the Burning Bush; Exodus ch.3). The Pharaoh refused (Exodus ch.4-5), so God sent ten plagues: the Nile turned to blood, frogs, lice, flies, cattle blight, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness (Exodus ch.7-10). After every plague, Moses went to the Pharaoh and pleaded for freedom. Again, he refused. God knew what the Pharaoh's most treasured possession was: his first born son. God told every Jew who had been faithful to him throughout the time of slavery to kill a lamb and paint its blood above their doors. Then they had to cook the lamb and bake bread to eat with it. There was no time for the bread to rise, so it was flat, or unleavened. After the meal, the Jews put on their travelling clothes and packed their belongings, to be ready to leave in the morning. That night, after the Seder meal, when they were asleep in their travelling clothes, God sent the Angel of Death. It passed over the sons of the Jewish families who had the blood on their doors, but it went into the houses of the families who didn't and killed their first born son. Pharaoh came running in tears, full of grief for his son whom God had killed. "Yes, yes, of course! Take your people and go away!" he cried in anguish (Exodus ch.12). "Go, go now! I don't want to see you again!" So the Jewish people set off, away from the city, led by God (Exodus ch.12-13). But when they reached the Red Sea, and set up camp for the night, someone sighted a cloud of dust on the horizon. The Egyptians were coming after them. The Pharaoh had changed his mind. They couldn't escape. The Red Sea (literally: Reed Sea) was the only thing they could see for miles. But God saved them. He told Moses to stand on the shore and wave his staff over the sea. It parted in two great walls of water, leaving dry land for the Jews to cross on. Just as they reached the other side, the Egyptians had started to cross. God made the sea go back, and they were drowned. The Jews escaped (Exodus ch.14).

That is why there is no leavening on Passover. Jews eat unleavened bread on Passover, as commanded by God (Exodus ch.12), to remember the time when there was no time for the bread to rise, and the Israelites ate unleavened bread with the lamb.

Answer 2

This is because when the Jews were escaping from Egypt, they had no time to wait for the yeast to rise; instead, they made Matzah. We eat Matzah to remember the events that happened long ago

Answer 3

Cus Yeast represents soon