<div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
G-d told us to eat only matzah, and so we baked only matzah. But had<br>
we tried to bake chametz (which, hypothetically, we did not try to do,<br>
but, hypothetically, had we tried to do...), we wouldn't have had<br>
time. In other words, G-d told us beforehand not to bake chametz,<br>
because He already knew we wouldn't have had time. In retrospect, for<br>
us, it made sense why He commanded us to bake only matzah: viz.,<br>
that's all we had time for, in retrospect! Therefore, the command was<br>
given with a certain ta'am already in G-d's Mind but NOT given to us,<br>
and LATER, the ta'am became apparent to even us.<br>
<br>
Mikha'el Makovi</blockquote><br>See The Beis Halevi on "Ba'avur Zeh"<br>IIRC He essentially says the same thing, the mitzva was in anticipation of the future history<br><br><br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>
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