[Avodah] Fast of the Bechorim

[Yisrael Medad]

Picked this up off of the Seforim blog, composed by Eliezer Brodt at
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/03/eliezer-brodt-review-of-halikhot-shlomo.html
 :

In regard to Pesach there is an amazing original piece as to why the bechorim
(first born) fast on Erev Pesach. R. Shlomo Zalman writes that if it is
solely due to the fact that the bechorim were saved from death, then all of
the descendants of the bechorim should also fast – not just bechorim! (The
answer is a bit more complex and includes several other components to this
answer, as well.) To this, R. Shlomo Zalman says that the reason for the
fast is not for the fact that they were saved but rather it was
because the bechorim
were supposed to do the avodah in the Beit Hamikdash, but that they lost it
due to the sin of the Golden Calf. So on the fourteenth day of Nissan when
they came to the Beit Hamikdash and they saw the kohanim and levi'im doing
the beautiful avodah they felt very sad so they did not eat. So they decided
to make a day to remember this as there was one time they were able to do
this – when Hashem skipped over the houses and to atone for the Golden Calf
which caused them to lose this great job (Halikhot Shlomo 3:179-180).

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Yisrael Medad
Shiloh
Mobile Post Efraim 44830
Israel
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