<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RMB</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">>></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Seriously, though, every time I<br>hear of someone making a se'udas hoda'ah for this yesh'uah or that, I<br>
thank HQBH for saving me from even needing a yeshu'ah. Every time my<br>child crosses the street and there were no hidden cars, I got a bigger<br>berakhah than that of the neighbor who thanks G-d their son healed.<br>
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</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Logic and emotions lead us in different directions in this matter. By logic, the</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">position RMB describes here is of course valid. Emotionally, salvation from an</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">actual danger engenders in us a feeling of gratitude which is impossible</span></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">to attain by contemplating a case in which "nothing bad happened".</span></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">This is the basis of the Talmudic principle that the mitzva of haggada on leil haseder</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">requires "matchil b'gnut u'mesayyem b'shvach". The "gnut" shows that the exodus was from</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">an intolerable situation, a genuine geula. Lacking this, our emotional response </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">to the exodus experience would not be nearly as intense.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">The emotions engendered by Pesach and Shavuot, corresponding to yetziat mitzraim and Matan Torah,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">are very different. The latter, although the central historical religious experience of all time, lacks </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">the emotional intensity of the former, because of the element of salvation in the Pesach experience.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Shavuot engenders intellectual gratitude, Pesach emotional.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Saul Mashbaum</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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