Leaven vs Chametz - What's the difference?
leaven | chametz |
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
Food made from leavened grain flour. The Torah states that Jews are not permitted to eat or drink it during the festival of Pesach (Passover), nor own it or even be seen with it, but must remove it from their houses and land at the beginning of the festival.
* c.1998:' Rabbi Y D Webster, ''The Halachos of Pesach [http://web.archive.org/web/20000817182731/http://users.aol.com/rabbiyd/bedika.html#_1_2]'' - Any flour of the five species of grain (wheat, spelt, oats, barley and rye) ... which becomes mixed with water and allowed to ferment for more than eighteen minutes before being baked is considered ' chometz .
* a.2006:' Rabbi Lawrence Rigal, ''Jewish Customs and Practices: Pesach (Passover) [http://web.archive.org/web/20020201220213/http://www.rigal.freeserve.co.uk/jewish/passover/pesach.htm]'' - All ' chamets found is carefully bundled up and taken outside and burnt.
* a.2006:' London Borough of Barnet, UK, ''Street Cleaning Programme: Special Services [http://www.barnet.gov.uk/street-cleaning-programme#specialservices]'' - Every year we provide skips for the Jewish community to dispose of ' chometz (Passover waste).
* 2006', ''The Press, Barnet and Whetstone edition 6 April 2006'' - The [Barnet council] skips are to be used only to dispose of ' chometz and will be clearly marked.
Arrogance, pride, artifice (this usage is based on a disputed translation of the Hebrew source word)
* 2000 , Rabbi Zeitlin, Congregation Beth Ha'ari, Pesach 2000: Chametz [http://www.congregationbethhaari.org/hzchametz2000.htm] - The real chametz we want to eliminate is that within our personalities and actions.
As nouns the difference between leaven and chametz
is that leaven is any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods while chametz is food made from leavened grain flour. The Torah states that Jews are not permitted to eat or drink it during the festival of Pesach (Passover), nor own it or even be seen with it, but must remove it from their houses and land at the beginning of the festival.As a verb leaven
is to add a leavening agent.leaven
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless * natural leavenVerb
(en verb)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
