[Avodah] The Return of the Chometz

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:21:53PM -0400, Cantor Wolberg wrote:
: What I always have found interesting is that removing chometz from our  
: homes was to be a time for us to reflect on removing the inflated ego  
: from our lives. We are to learn to be as humble and as unleavened as  
: matzo. But then just a week later, we're back to eating chometz...
:                                         I guess it would be too  
: cumbersome to do away with chometz forever, but perhaps once a month  
: (maybe Rosh Chodesh) we could symbolically eat matzah for that
: day (or two) just to remind us that our ego must be kept in check.

Numerous acharonim grapple with the question of why the Rambam doesn't
count zeikher yetzi'as Mitzrayim among the 613. One answer is that it's
subsumed under sippur yetzi'as Mitzrayim. Once a year we have to relive
the yetzi'ah at length, and every other day we revive our memory of that
experience through a short one liner zechirah.

I forgot which acharon I stumbled across that one in while browsing in
the sepharim store.

However, if so, then your idea could be taken as the point of the words
of Shema "lihyos lakhem lEilokim", to answer Hashem's calling rather
than imposing our own.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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