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all Jewish festivals and commemorations
are linked to the calendar date we
always celebrate pesak on the 15th of
Nissan which this year falls out on a
Tuesday even though at the time of The
Exodus it was a Thursday same's true of
sukot
Sha of every Jewish remembrance we
always commemorate the calendar date and
not the day of the week that it happened
on with one exception Shabbat Hodo what
do we commemorate on Shabbat aod and why
don't we celebrate it on its calendar
date Hashem commanded the Jews that 5
days before The Exodus they should take
their lambs and tie them to the bed
posts in preparation for the Lambs to be
slaughtered on the 14th of Nissan the
Pascal lamb when the Egyptians saw them
leading their lambs through the streets
they asked what is the Lamb for the
children of Israel answered it's to be
slaughtered as a Passover sacrifice as
God has commanded us the Egyptians For
Whom the lamb was a deity nashed their
teeth in anger but miraculously they
could not utter a sound in protest nor
do anything to stop their gods being led
away this happened on the 10th of Nissan
which that year was Shabbat and so we
commemorate this miracle on Shabbat
before pesak but this begs the question
why don't we celebrate the Miracle on
the 10th of Nissan whatever the day of
the week it is the balat says in Pasad V
all the plag plagues ceased on
Shabbat the tenth of Nissan was during
the plague of
Darkness if the Jews had led their sheep
through the street on any other day of
the week than Shabbat the Egyptians
simply wouldn't have seen them and there
would have been no
Miracle but because it was Shabbat and
the plague of Darkness ceased
temporarily the Jews were in full view
of the Egyptians and nonetheless the
Egyptians were powerless to do a thing