A. J. Jacobs wrote of...
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A. J. Jacobs wrote of his experiences in seeking to live one year "biblically." He wrote,
"This year I wanted an uncensored Passover, I wanted to tell the whole story of the
Exodus." When his parents and parents-in-law arrived he "greeted them in my biblically
mandated outfit. Exodus says to eat with your loins girded -- I wear a belt around a white
robe."
At the table A. J. passed around a plate of unleavened bread. He explained that the first unleavened bread in the Bible "was cooked by the Israelites as they wandered out of Egypt. They didn't have time to put the bread on stones, so they put it on their backs and let the sun harden it."
Jacobs decided to do the same. "That morning, I had taken some kosher flour, added water, made a hubcap-sized pancake, slipped it into a plastic Ziploc™ bag, and slapped the whole mixture on my back." He walked outside in the sun to bake the bread. That night at dinner, his parents and parents-in-law were reluctant to eat any of his bread even after the assurance that it had been in a baggie.
The Lord God gave specific instructions to Moses and Aaron on the proper observance of the Passover. "This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance."
(From A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically [New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007], p. 234)
At the table A. J. passed around a plate of unleavened bread. He explained that the first unleavened bread in the Bible "was cooked by the Israelites as they wandered out of Egypt. They didn't have time to put the bread on stones, so they put it on their backs and let the sun harden it."
Jacobs decided to do the same. "That morning, I had taken some kosher flour, added water, made a hubcap-sized pancake, slipped it into a plastic Ziploc™ bag, and slapped the whole mixture on my back." He walked outside in the sun to bake the bread. That night at dinner, his parents and parents-in-law were reluctant to eat any of his bread even after the assurance that it had been in a baggie.
The Lord God gave specific instructions to Moses and Aaron on the proper observance of the Passover. "This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance."
(From A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically [New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007], p. 234)
