Hi Brian,

Unless I misunderstood you, I believe the Hebrew letter "hey" is the one
with the 'broken' left leg, not the "chet". Therefore, it would be the
"chet" that would have to 'break' its left leg to become a 'hey".

- Steve Brandt

"Brian Mailman" > wrote in message
...
> Wcsjohn wrote:
>
>> There is a very old strand of Christian thought that equates "leaven"
>> (biological raising agents, commercial yeast or SD) with "corruption" and
>> those
>> who believe that association to be valid, will not eat bread raised by
>> such a
>> leaven.
>
> It rather predates that by some centuries and involves a Jewish holiday
> where leavened products are not eaten. There are some differing opinions
> as to why, but one of the more mystical/mythical is having to do with
> anagrams and the shape of one of the letters ... wait, I wrote about this
> in a column, lemme look it up. Ah, here it is... ""Matzo/matzah" and
> "chametz" are anagrams (MTZH/KHMTZ) but with one important difference. The
> Hebrew letter "hey," the last letter in matzo/matzah _breaks_ its left leg
> in "chametz" to become "chet" or the first letter of "chayt" or "sin."
> This tells us that sin is a broken act...."
>
> B/