Pesach: The Answer Is The Matza - The Electrifying Gematriya of Rav Moshe Shapiro

This Torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com. We now begin the week in preparation of the holy Yom Tov of Pesach have a line of Tova. We know one of the central elements of the Haggadah, the question of the Manishtana Manishtana halaila hazah mikol halailos. It's very curious because where exactly is the answer? What precisely is the answer to the question Manishtana halaila hazah mikol halailos? It's amazing thing. If you look in the safer of the Ramami Panai Yonas Elem the Kitzur Yonas Elem Islamid he tells us an amazing gematria that Kahal 135 is gematria three times mah. On Pesach there were three different chaburos that went into the making of the carbon Pesach. Kol Kahal Adas Yisrael three times mah, what is the meaning over here? Rav Moshe Shapiro in the safer Afikei Mayim brings an electrifying gematria. Matzah we know is called nahama d'mehemanusa, the bread of emunah. Why is it the bread of emunah? Certainly the gemara tells us about the matzah. It's lechem she'einam al od dvarim harbeh. We speak a lot about the matzah. What exactly is the emunah of the matzah? And Rav Moshe Shapiro brings an incredible remez. Matzah is also 135. What's 135? Three times mah. What's three times mah? K'neged daled banim dibrah Torah. Echad chacham, v'echad rasha, v'echad tam, v'echad she'eino yodea lishol. Why is matzah only three times mah? Well chacham mah hu omer? Mah ha'eidus she'be'fi hamishpatim? The chacham asks mah. Rasha mah hu omer? Mah ha'eidus? The rasha asks mah. Tam mah hu omer? Mah zos he? The tam asks mah. V'she'eino yodea lishol at Pesach lo. The she'eino yodea lishol does not ask mah. Matzah is gematria three times mah. Meaning matzah is the answer to the three mahs. The question of the chacham the question of the rasha and the question of the she'eino yodea lishol. The answer is we don't need to philosophize. We know it. We don't need to explain. Just internalize and integrate and consume the matzah so the matzah will be digested and reconstituted and the emunah will now flow through your bloodstream. Matzah is three times mah. Matzah is the answer to all the questions. That is why matzah is gematria 135, three times mah. The matzah itself is the answer to the question. An incredible remez brought in the safer Afikei Mayim on Pesach page kuf ayin beis. I wish everyone a chag kosher v'sameach a good Yom Tov. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.