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This is a little parable or story with two meanings.
There was a man who lived in a small town with his wife. He was a young man and zealous for Torah. The young couple is learning about Torah and applying it to their lives as they learn. It is the week of Passover and he is doing all the things to get ready for it. He cleans his whole house out of leaven and eagerly looks forward to enjoying his week of Pesach. He attends a seder with his wife at his local synagogue and it is an excellent expierince.
Later that week his wife gets a call that her parents are coming into town. She tells her husband and they are excited at the thought of her parents coming as they have recently bought a house and want to share their new home and maybe even a little about passover with them as her parents don't observe the Torah lifestyle.
The parents show up and the excitement begins, with hugs and kisses and warm hospitality they rejoin with their daughter and her husband to catch up. Along with their guests the husband notices they bring some bread. He feels set back at first as he might not of thought about them bringing leaven with them into his house. He consults his wife, maybe she will explain to her parents they can't have it in their home. The daughter has some awkwardness as she feels it's not her place to tell her parents what they can do.
The husband puts his foot down and says we must tell them they can't bring that into our house during passover. The wife thinks he is being rediculous and will not tell her parents that they can't have leaven. An argument arises and ends with no resolution.
This is a funny story because it could very well happen. The funny part about it is that the leaven of the parents wastn't just in the bread that her parents brought. See she was still trying to learn to be a Godly woman and to honor her husband. Some of the leaven that her parents had brought was in their daughter who they had not raised in the Biblical ways a woman should be with her husband. In the way they raised their daughter not according to the ways of the scripture she was left to have to make those changes later in life and it was not easy and a slow process. Her parents brought leaven into the husbands house both in bread and in their daughter.
Many of us have baggage and bad habits we learned from our parents, or simply were never taught nor saw as an example of what a husband and wife should look like and how they should act in the household. Part of getting the leaven out for first generation Torah observant believers in Yahushua as the Messiah is that we have to clean out the leaven of our raising (no pun intended). Lets take time this week to recognize that we may not know how our relationships are supposed to look but through the Torah and patient love we can both work on being Godly Husbands and Wives. Shalom!
A disciple should diligently search for the truth and humbly deny and reconsider it's possession.
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