Rabbi Chaim Mintz's Pesach Message from Oorah

I'd like to uh give over to you a thought about matzah that I think everybody will find interesting and uh helpful in performing this wonderful mut that we do in pes and uh we know that there are three different character traits main ones that uh drive a person On one hand we have arrogance and humility. We have uh desire and being satisfied with what we have and we have also to be lazy or fidious to do things quickly. If we'll think into it, we see that has all three negatives. It blows up. It's high like arrogant people that hold themselves high and mighty. It has a taste to it. The fermentation gives it a taste and uh also it has to with the laziness because you can't bake bread fast. You have to wait for it to rise and wait rise again and rise again before you bake it. On the other hand, matzah matzah has the opposite. It's flat, humble, shows humility. It's also it uh doesn't have the taste of the fermentation that says and uh also it uh must be baked very quickly. Any of you have been in a matzah bake me know that uh there's no room for laziness. Everything has to be very quickly. If the anybody's lazy, doesn't do things quickly. They have to throw the batter into the garbage. You can't use it. It has to be baked very very quickly without any hesitation. and Jewish people come out and coming out of Egypt getting ready to accept the Torah Mount Si. That was the whole purpose of going out of Egypt to accept the Torah. The Torah is God's Torah and God's together. He's connected very strongly with the Torah, inseparable. For us to take God's Torah, we have to make ourselves worthy and uh make ourselves to the state of perfection that God wants us to be to give the Torah to us. Therefore, we enjoyed having these three types of perfection of these midas, these character traits that uh we got the mit being slaves to be humble, to be satisfied with what we have, and to be quick and fidious, being slaves to pyra. Now, we're ready to accept the Torah. We eat the matzah to show this is what we have to think about. We have to work on ourselves and to make ourselves in the uh right uh position and understanding and uh worthiness of accepting the Torah. And this is what we have to think about. We eat the matzah. We we eat the matzah seven days but we have to live matzah the whole year. We have to think to ourselves we eat the matzah. We want to be humble. We want to be satisfied with with what we have. We want to be quick to do the mitzvah of Hashem, do the right thing. And eventually this will lead up to the accepting of the Torah and would be worthy of it if we'll work on our midas on our character traits to perfect them and go in God's ways. Just as he's perfect, we try to be as perfect as possible. Everybody should have a very happy kosher pes and we hope to be worthy of becoming better people closer to Hashem and ready for accepting the Torah.