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Haggadah Shel Pesach: The Egg of Mourning & Redemption - Answering the Vilna Gaon's Question on Rema

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This special presentation of detora on Pesak is dedicated in honor of the art site of Hya Gabriel Tress whose yard site is today she should be for her whole family is to eat an egg at the beginning of before even the meal and it's To commemorate some kind of morning, we consume an egg. An egg is a food that symbolizes a cycle of life and it's a sign of aos. Dam explains what's the aos? Because tishabove is established as the same night as pes. In other words, the tishab that comes after pes will always be the same night of the year as pes. So this year pes is matzah shabas. So tish will be shabas. The beer hagra cites the medishani that it says which say means that hashem satiate us on the first night of pes with matzah he also caused us bitterness on tishb. So there's a connection between tishab and pesak. Whatever night of the week Pesak comes out on, it will be the same night for the following tishab. That's the first reason of the Rama aos. What's the aos? The gro explains tishov and pes come out the same night. The rama adds another reason where they brought the carbon p. In other words, we're having this whole but it's missing the main thing. It's missing the carbon pes. So it's a display of aos. We consume we have an egg on the kara and the dish says from there it developed to consume the egg there's actually a very big between these two reasons is it to commemorate the fact that tishabove is the same night as pes or is it a aos because we don't have a current pes the namina is do you eat an egg the second night if it's because tishab is the same night of the week as pes it's the same night of the week as the first day of pes not the second night. Accordingly, you wouldn't eat it the second night. But if it's to commemorate the fact that we no longer have a carbon pes, well, we still treat the second day of Pes as if it would be the first in terms of the calendar date, but not in terms of the day of the week. So therefore, we would consume the egg. In the he alludes to this he says to eat an egg where they were of the p. Nowadays we don't add the carbon pesak and for this reason we eat it the second night also which indicates the reason to eat it the second night is because of a veos of lack of the carbon pes not related to the fact it's the same night of the week as tishab however you can ask a very important question here and that is according to the second reason that we eat the egg because we no longer have a carbon pes we don't have any carbon Nice. So in that case we should eat an egg every or maybe even shabas. But why dava pesim in thekal he tries to answer this question. He addresses this question. He says was supposed to be 400 years. the fact that we went out early, it was go that we had a tishov and we had a so therefore the fact that we don't have amp is most closely related to than any other yam. So in other words, the reason why we have aos that we don't have carbonos is more appropriately commemorated on PES because the the gul that happened sooner than it should have is the cause of the aos of tishab. The beer hagra though gives a third reason why we eat an egg on tishab. The says because it's a tob. Now the GR doesn't explain why he didn't like the other reasons of the Rama. Namely, it's the same night of the year as tishab or it's the same night of the week as tish or it's a to the fact that we can't be m carbon pes it's aos for the pes see the says it's not a it's a to the said it's a aos that we don't have a carbon pes so the gr doesn't say in the why he didn't like the answers of the rama but a mas the says the reason for the ail of an cannot be because of aos. Heaven forbid to mention a tishab to mention the aos of tishab on pes. In other words, it's a yumptiff. Why would we invoke or commemorate or bring in any type of aos or any connection of tishab on this day? So interestingly in the salv he answers the question of the G on the Rama that the reason why we would mention the of is not to mourn per se but to strengthen our amuna in the promise Hashem promised us says even though indeed we did leave but it was not a complete gula that gul was uh deficient because we had to go back into galas. So lest somebody be incredulous that Hashem's promise did not come uh true completely in order to be our amuna what we do is we have an aos and we commemorate and we remind ourselves the reason why the gu was not complete because the gu was somewhat premature. This will be that indeed the guul will come. In other words, the reason why we have some semblance of aos that hashem's promise will come to fruition completely in the new hagada freman where this presentation is found. He offers an innovative angle to answer the kasha of the vagama namely why would we invoke the ais of tishab on pes and he explains that the significance of pes and tishab coming out on the same night of the year is not just well we're going to commemorate on pes why would we do that but we have a tradition It's not just like the Garra says in general says the writes 15 words because Pes is predestined for the reason why we invoke Tishab is not to mourn. It's to say that on this night we have the capacity to reverse the aos of tishab. We have the capacity to overcome it. We have the capacity to turn things in the right direction. And instead of having mourning, having great celebration. So we're not invoking tishab for mourning per se. We're invoking tishab to to reflect that we're able to reverse tishabove. We're able to reverse the his biani on this night of herani his biani. So in other words, tishab is being brought in not to mourn for it but to declare that on this night we're able to overcome it because wishing everyone