Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) Jews are collecting water from a mountain spring outside Jerusalem.
The water will be used in the making of matzah, or unleavened bread, that is eaten instead of regular bread during the week-long Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover), which commemorates the Jews’ exodus from Egypt in Biblical times.
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The water, once collected, will sit overnight, and be used the next day for the matzah baking. That water is called “Mayim Shelanu”, water that has slept.
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