[Avodah] Ta'am of eating matzah

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:08:41AM -0400, Michael Makovi wrote:
: We learn that we eat matzah because we didn't have time to bake
: chametz, and all our dough became matzah. But all the same, we were
: commanded to eat matzah before we left, and before we had any lack of
: time!

Actually, in <http://www.aishdas.org/asp/pesach62.shtml> identify four
matzos, which in turn I relate to the four sections of the seder as
divided by the kosos.

1- Ha lachma anya di achala avashana be'ara'a demitzrayim

2- Lechem oni - she'onim alav devarim harbei (Ki yisha'lkha binkha
   machar)

3- Al matzos umorerim yochluhu (which was not normal life in Mitzrayim
   but yet commanded before any hasty departure).

4- Ki bechipazon

Or: (1) humility, (2) acting thoughtfully, (3) commitment, and (4)
zerizus.

Or:
(1) Poverty and suffering, transformed through (2) Torah study and (3)
mitzvah observance, becomes (4) redemption.

:-)||ii!
-Micha

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