[Avodah] Ta'am of eating matzah

[Michael Makovi]

> > Midrash Tanchuma says that it is like a father who wound a clock
> > everyday, and then gave it to his son to wind. G-d kept the calendar,
> > and then gave it to us to wind.
> > Mikha'el Makovi


> Had wind-up clocks had been invented at the time of Midrash Tanchuma? Or is
> this a paraphrase?
> R' Simon Montagu

Guilty as charged - paraphrase. I'll have to check my Sefer Ha-Aggadah
again for where that Tanchuma is, but the gist is the same, whatever
it says. G-d kept the calendar for a while, but handed the buck off to
us. (What on earth does that expression mean? I don't even know what
kind of "buck" we're speaking of...)

Mikha'el Mikha'el