[Avodah] Zecher Liytzias Mitzrayim and Shmini Atzeres

[Alexander Seinfeld]

It¹s a nice vort but couldn¹t you ask the same about Shabbos and Rosh
Hashana?

Isn¹t every Yomtov is a Zecher Yetzias Mitzrayim, not for historical
reasons but because Yetzias Mitzrayim is the foundation of our emunah (not
Har Sinai)?
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>>Rashi (B'midbar 29:35) famously tells us that Shmini Atzeres is a special
>>time, with just Hashem and Bnei Yisrael together, alone, with no other
>>nations around. I'm merely pointing out that it is not just the nations
>>who
>>are gone: The lulav is gone. The sukkah is gone. Nothing remains but us
>>and
>>Hashem, when we left the comfort of the miraculous sukkah, trading it for
>>being at home in Eretz Yisrael.
>>
>>Akiva Miller
>>
>>Postscript: An easy challenge to this post could be that Tishre 22 was
>>NOT
>>the day that we crossed from the midbar into Eretz Yisrael. I will
>>respond
>>in advance by pointing out that Shavuos too is not necessarily celebrated
>>on the same day as the event it reminds us of. The Zecher can be poetic
>>and
>>emotional, and need not be so mathematically rigorous.