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Passover (first day) (Exodus 12:21-51)
The Connection between Passover and Tisha B'Av
What is the antidote to gratuitous hatred?
The answer comes in a surprising connection
between Pesach and Tisha B'Av. The Rema
in the Shulchan Aruch mentions that the
evening of first night Seder will always be
the same day of the week as the opening eve-
ning of the following Tisha B'Av. And that's
the reason, he says, why just before the fast
of Tisha B'Av and also on our Seder tables
we have a hardboiled egg to eat. What then
is the deeper connection between Pesach and
Tisha B'Av? The Rema in the Shulchan
Aruch mentions that the evening of first
night Seder will always be the same day of
the week as the opening evening of the fol-
lowing Tisha B'Av. And that's the reason, he
says, why just before the fast of Tisha B'Av
and also on our Seder tables we have a hard-
boiled egg to eat. What then is the deeper
connection between Pesach and Tisha B'Av?
In the Mah Nishtana we declare: 'She'b'chol
ha'leylot ein anu matbilin afilu pa'am achat -
On all other nights we don't even dip once.'
'Aval ha'layla ha'ze shtei pa'amim - but on
this night we dip twice.' The Ben Ish Chai of
19th century Baghdad gives a wonder-
ful peirush: he says that these two dippings
at the Seder table come to remind us of the
very first two dippings on record. Kar-
pas comes to remind us of when Joseph's
brothers dipped his coat in blood
and Charoset comes to remind us of the sec-
ond dipping on record - the mitzvah given in
the book of Shemot to the Israelites to take a
bundle of hyssop, to dip it into blood and
then to smear it onto the doorposts and the
lintels to protect them from The Plague of
the Firstborn. The Ben Ish Chai said that
that first dipping in Sefer Bereishit repre-
sents Sinat Chinam. It was the causeless ha-
tred that Joseph's brothers had for him that
prompted them to engage in their attempted
fratricide. The second dipping in the book
of Shemot is all about unity. You see, the To-
rah says 'U'lekachtem agudat ezov, take a
bundle of hyssop; that
term aguda represents a bonded entity
which is a symbol of the unity of the Jewish
people at that time. Therefore, says the Ben
Ish Chai, the second dipping is an antidote
to the first. It is only through Jewish unity
that we will be able to overcome the totally
unnecessary and tragic friction of Sinat
Chinam. Our exile into Egypt started
with Sinat Chinam and we were redeemed
there from through Ahavat Chinam -
through causeless love, through unity within
our ranks. Similarly, our exile out of Jerusa-
lem in the year seventy with the destruction
of the second temple happened because
of Sinat Chinamand please God, our ulti-
mate redemption will come through the
unity of our people. We see from this
that Mah Nishtana isn't just a lovely little
song that children sing, rather, it provides
for us the strong connection between Pesach
and Tisha B'Av and more significantly, it
shows us what the antidote to Sinat
Chinam is and gives us the key to our ulti-
mate redemption - may it happen speedily in
our time. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
Passover:
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“Fur Coats and Fires:
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"I shall go through Egypt on this night, and I shall strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man
to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I shall mete out punishment - I am God. The blood shall be a
sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood I shall pass over you; there shall not be a
plague of destruction upon you when I strike in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:12-13) The plague of the
firstborn differs from the rest of the plagues. The Torah issues no instructions about doing anything
to avoid Jewish vulnerability for any of the first nine plagues, but in the case of the tenth, the smiting
of the firstborn, it provides an elaborate ceremony involving the offering of the Passover sacrifice and
smearing the blood on the doors. The very name Passover is taken from these instructions of avoid-
ance. We celebrate the fact that God passed over the houses in which the Jews lived when He smote
the firstborn. In fact we are commanded to redeem our own firstborn because God saved them from
the tenth plague. God sanctified the Jewish firstborn onto Him by sparing their lives when He killed
the Egyptian firstborn. The Maharal (The Book of Power, Ch.60) addresses the issue. He states that
there was no need for ceremonies of avoidance concerning the first nine plagues because Israel was
not vulnerable to them. We were vulnerable only to the tenth plague. The world had to change for us
to escape its effects. We shall attempt to plumb the depths of his ideas in this essay.
Rabbi Noson Weisz
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Passover Insights from aish.com
This is the bread of our affliction. All who are 'hungry' (physically), come and eat. All who
'need' (spiritually, emotionally), come and celebrate. "With these words, we begin the Passover
Hagaddah; we take ourselves back to 1313 BCE and begin the transition from slavery to freedom.
One possible reason that the Rabbis started the Seder this way is to teach us that through sharing
with others, both on a spiritual and physical level, we can change ourselves. A person who can't
share of his blessings, his time, or himself is really a slave to those things. True freedom is to un-
derstand that the only meaningful choices we have in life is the ability to decide what to do with
what the Almighty has given us. This could be why the Rabbis taught that if someone studies To-
rah and doesn't share it, he has missed the whole point. If someone only accumulates and cannot
share, everything he owns is the bread of his affliction. He becomes a slave to himself. One of the
lessons we learned in Egypt was how to be concerned with the plight of those around us. As we
celebrate our freedom, we should take the time to ensure that all who "need" and all who are
"hungry" are taken care of. It is our chance to begin our journey from slavery to freedom, giving
us the opportunity to make meaningful choices in life, to be a conduit through which God's
blessings can enter the world. Rabbi Ron Jawary