[Avodah] More on Where did the wheat used to bake your matzos come from?

[Zev Sero]

Yitzchok Levine wrote:

> Therefore, the wheat that was used to make the matzos that the B'nei 
> Yisroel ate at their seder in Mitzraim definitely was watered by irrigation!
> Furthermore, it turns out that many places in Arizona receive more 
> rainfall than in Egypt. See http://alliance.la.asu.edu/maps/AZ_rain_web.pdf
> Thus, if anything, the contention should be that one should not use 
> wheat that was watered via rainfall, and all of our anscestors who did 
> were not following the original tradition!!!! >:-}


The mitzvah of matzah, though, was not given to be fulfilled in Egypt
but in EY, which, Hashem tells us is "not like the Land of Egypt which
you left, where you sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot like a
vegetable garden", but is rather "a land of mountains and valleys, which
drinks water from the rain of the sky".  And that is the wheat our
ancestors were commanded to make matzoh from; they were not to return to
Egypt even to import horses, let alone wheat!

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