Pesach: Why We Call It Pesach

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why do we call the Yom Tov Pesach while the Torah calls it Chag HaMatzos? Rashi gives Pesach two meanings, passing over and having mercy. A known chassidish vort answers that we name the Yom Tov for Hashem's mercy to us, and Hashem names it for the matzah of a people who followed Him into the midbar. Later we see why Shabbos is also a zecher to yetzias Mitzrayim.

Key points

• A sefer cited ties the sheep and goat of the Korban Pesach to those two meanings.
• The Gemara in Brachos says Hashem also has tefillin, with pesukim on Klal Yisrael's greatness.
• In the chassidish vort, Chag HaMatzos is Hashem praising Klal Yisrael for following Him into the midbar.
• A Midrash tells that on their day off in Mitzrayim, the Yidden strengthened themselves in the geulah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The name of the Yom Tov
2. 2:20Sheep and goat for the Korban Pesach
3. 3:47Pesach versus Chag HaMatzos
4. 6:46Hashem's tefillin and ours
5. 14:40Each side praising the other
6. 16:02Zecher l'yetzias Mitzrayim and Shabbos
7. 18:48Moshe and the day off in Mitzrayim
8. 20:57Questions about when Moshiach comes

Topics

• Pesach
• Chag HaMatzos
• Korban Pesach
• Yetzias Mitzrayim