[Avodah] baal tosif?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:56:07PM +0000, Allan Engel wrote:
: Not sure that the Korban Pesach had a vegetarian option.

Maybe, but I've heard of using a piece of olive wood, to remember the
shipud, instead of a zaroa. The spit couldn't be metal, since that
would sear the meat by conducted heat, not tzeli eish. And most woods
are absorbant, so zayis in particular was used.

But still, the problem is as RAE points out, the entire concept of a
qorban Pesach is non-vegetarian. Unless one is vegetarian on religious
grounds -- not eating chullin, or not putting meat on your shulchan
until there is meat on HQBH's -- the whole thing becomes a tarta desasrei.

Besides, making a point about another message distracts from the seder's
actual purpose. So aside from my simply disagreeing with many of the
messages that they are trying to symbolize on the ke'arah, I wouldn't
think a message I do agree with does necessarily belong there. It's hard
to fulfil vehigadta levinkha if you're trying to simultaneously tell the
next generation two or more things. The further the cause is from what
it is we're supposed to be relaying, the more problematic it is. The
seder is not about freedom from oppression in general, it's about the
Yad Hashem in freeing us from Mitzrayim and qervanu la'avodaso.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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