In Preparation for Peseach Hakham Shauls (Paul) says…
Igeret to the Corinthians 5:5-8
6 Your pride is not good. Don’t you know that a small amount of yeast (pride) leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven (get rid of the boastful pride), so that you may be a new lump, (fresh unleavened bread) as you are unleavened. For even Mashiach our Passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
My Poetic Meditation on/of these verse
1 Your pride—
it rises like hidden yeast,
inflating what was once simple and whole.
Do you not know?
A whisper of arrogance
can swell the soul beyond its bounds.
2 Therefore—
scrape away the old leaven,
cast out the boast, the self-made crown.
Let the lump be new again,
soft in its humility,
fresh like dough that has not yet known the fire.
3 For Mashiach—our Passover—
has been offered up,
a Lamb without pride,
without blemish,
without resistance.
His blood the seal,
His flesh the truth.
4 So let us keep the feast—
not with the crusts of yesterday’s ego,
nor with the leaven of malice,
nor the bitter flour of deceit.
5 But with matzah of sincerity,
thin and honest,
and with bread made of truth,
flat but eternal,
humble but enduring—
a meal fitting for those
who walk out of Egypt
with clean hearts
and quiet strength.
