{"id":5425,"date":"2011-03-01T01:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:18:41","slug":"04-01-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/04-01-01\/","title":{"rendered":"01.\u00a0The Festival of <strong>Matzot<\/strong> and the Festival of Pesa\u1e25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday of Pesa\u1e25 has two different names in the Torah, corresponding to its two different meanings: <strong>\u1e24ag Ha-matzot <\/strong>(the Festival of <strong>Matzot<\/strong>), as it is written, \u201cYou shall observe the Festival of <strong>Matzot <\/strong>(Shemot 23:15 and elsewhere), and <strong>\u1e24ag Ha-Pesa\u1e25 <\/strong>(the Festival of Pesa\u1e25), as it is written, \u201cthe sacrifice of the Festival of Pesa\u1e25\u201d (Shemot 34:25). <strong>\u1e24ag Ha-matzot <\/strong>represents the revelation of God\u2019s providence, and <strong>\u1e24ag Ha-Pesa\u1e25<\/strong> represents Israel\u2019s unique spiritual capacity.<\/p>\n<p>At the Exodus from Egypt, God\u2019s sovereignty over the world was given its most apparent and concrete manifestation. Thus, our faith in God is fundamentally rooted in the Exodus. The matza symbolizes this aspect of our holiday, as we read in the Hagada: \u201cThis matza that we eat \u2013 what is the reason? Because our forefathers\u2019 dough did not have time to rise before the holy Supreme King of kings <strong>revealed<\/strong> Himself to them and redeemed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unique mission and destiny of the people of Israel was also revealed at the time of the Exodus. The distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians was conspicuous in all of the plagues, as the Egyptians were struck and the Israelites were saved, through to the Plague of the Firstborn, when the destroyer struck every Egyptian household but passed over (<strong>pasa\u1e25<\/strong>) Israelite homes. Israel\u2019s uniqueness is expressed through and symbolized by the Paschal sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>These two fundamental principles \u2013 faith and Israel \u2013 are linked together and interdependent. Unlike the other nations, which are formed through human endeavor, the nation of Israel was forged through divine miracles and wonders at the time of the Exodus for the purpose of receiving God\u2019s Torah. Israel\u2019s status entirely depends on their connection with God: when Israel does God\u2019s will and makes God\u2019s name manifest in the world, they earn all the blessings promised in the Torah. But when they do not fulfill God\u2019s will, all of the curses written in the Torah are visited upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondingly, the revelation of God\u2019s name in the world, that is, the manifestation of divine values on earth, depends upon Israel, as Scripture states: \u201cI created this nation for My sake; they will tell My praise\u201d (Yeshayahu 43:21). For this reason, the Sages stated (<strong>Bereishit Rabba<\/strong> 1:4) that the idea of Israel preceded the creation of the world, for it is through Israel that the purpose of the world is revealed. This is what the Sages meant when they said: \u201cGod set a condition with Creation: \u2018If Israel accepts the Torah, you will continue to exist, but if not, then I will return you to being formless and void\u2019\u201d (<strong>Shabbat<\/strong> 88a). Israel\u2019s unique capabilities were further made manifest in that God chose us to be His nation and children, in spite of the fact that we were lowly slaves, stuck in the morass of impurity in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the two biblical names of the holiday express two aspects of one matter, namely, the revelation of God\u2019s name in the world through Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday of Pesa\u1e25 has two different names in the Torah, corresponding to its two different meanings: \u1e24ag Ha-matzot (the Festival of Matzot), as it is written, \u201cYou shall observe the Festival of Matzot (Shemot 23:15 and elsewhere), and \u1e24ag Ha-Pesa\u1e25 (the Festival of Pesa\u1e25), as it is written, \u201cthe sacrifice of the Festival of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-the-meaning-of-the-holiday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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