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

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:04:04PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> : 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"...
> 
> Ramban on Shemos 12:32 "vayofu es habatzeiq" quotes the Mekhilta that
> says it was matzos mitzvah that they were too rushed to make chameitz
> anyway.

Yes, but *our* mitzvah of matzah, ledorot, was "vehaya ki yeviacha".
It did not apply in the desert, apart from the first year.  And ledorot
we used wheat that grew on rain water.  So how can that be a problem?


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