<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Michael Kopinsky <<a href="mailto:mkopinsky@gmail.com">mkopinsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Daniel Israel <<a href="mailto:dmi1@hushmail.com" target="_blank">dmi1@hushmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am struck by a different question, however, related to this issue. We<br>are told that Avraham baked matzos on Pesach. In the above inyan we see<br>
that matzah is connected to leil seder. So who set the calendar before<br>the mitzvah was given in Parshas Bo?<br></blockquote>
</div><div>The calendar is mentioned in Chumash as early as Parshas Noach (Bereishis 7:11, 8:4, among other places). Thus, the question (at least in my mind) is not where did the calendar come from, but rather, what is the chiddush of HaChodesh Hazeh Lachem?</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>I have a completely different POV on this matter. Based loosely upon archaeology and alleged comments by R. MM Kasher heard from S/A/R High via my daughter Chana Yocheved...<br><br>Hypothesis: the issur of Hametz is rooted in the fact that this was an Egyptian delicacy<br>
hence it's issur for BOTH mizbeyach and for Passover....<br><br><ol><li>Hebrews in the Land of Canaan ALWAYS ate matzo, Hametz was "alien"</li><li>When HKBH tooks US out of Egypt HE also took EGYPT out of us by forbidding this Egyptian delicacy</li>
</ol><br>[Avraham &] Lot had been to Egypt but he reverted to the Hebrew Minhag of Matza and did NOT make Hametz. Hence Lot was performing a PROTO-yetzias mitzarayim, or simply NEVER being assimilated to Egyptian culture in the first place he was actually doing a "super-Yetzia"<br>
<br><br>Alsol: [I have planned to BLOG this a while ago]<br><ol><li>kema'seh eretz Mitzaryyim... becomes a MAJOR" Meta-Mitzva</li><li>It answers the Hinuch's puzzlement with the issur of dvash and s'or in the korban Minchah - i.e. BOTH are Egyptian delicacies!</li>
<li>It would seem that we really should have zero hametz all year, but HKBH reduced it to Passover [anniversary] and to Menachos [except lachmei Soda AND shtei halechem...] <br></li><li>While Rashi et. al. seem to point out that Kedoshim is the "Core" off the Torah, the actual preface to this core could be a perek earlier in Acharei mos</li>
<li>Which is another reason to read this meta-Mitzva on YK <br></li><li>Implicit in this Parsha read on Minhach YK is also the Parsah of Kedoshim, but we are mekatzer...</li><li>This meta-Mitzva doevtails well with the Rambam's thesis [in the Moreh] that much of the Torah has an anti-AZ agenda [i.e.issur Hametz is related to Egyptian culture etc.]</li>
<li>This probably further supports Rambam's thesis of Bassar BeHalav over Ramban's [see the Hinuch for details] becausue aiui arachaeology supports that this was a pagan ritual<br></li></ol><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>
RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>