[Avodah] Ta'am of eating matzah

[Richard Wolpoe]

>
> G-d told us to eat only matzah, and so we baked only matzah. But had
> we tried to bake chametz (which, hypothetically, we did not try to do,
> but, hypothetically, had we tried to do...), we wouldn't have had
> time. In other words, G-d told us beforehand not to bake chametz,
> because He already knew we wouldn't have had time. In retrospect, for
> us, it made sense why He commanded us to bake only matzah: viz.,
> that's all we had time for, in retrospect! Therefore, the command was
> given with a certain ta'am already in G-d's Mind but NOT given to us,
> and LATER, the ta'am became apparent to even us.
>
> Mikha'el Makovi


See The Beis Halevi on "Ba'avur Zeh"
IIRC He essentially says the same thing, the mitzva was in anticipation of
the future history




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