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Rav Binny Davis - Motzi Matza [Getting Ready for the Seder] · In the Beis at Yeshivat Orayta

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  Rav Binny Davis: Motzi Matza. Alright, alumni. I'd like to share with you the following idea that, I think both appears in Rasolovacic's Lonely Man of Faith and in Revel Eliazim Alamed's Pinny Nehaloka. They say it slightly different ways. They go something like this.
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  Ruf Salovecic describes in Lonely Man of Faith Adam one and Adam two. Right? Adam one is the is the creative one, the one who wants to do, the one who wants to achieve. Right? He's created B'tzelim and O'Kim as someone who, like Hashem, is creating in Baeshi's Perik Aleph, so too he is a creator.
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  He wants to develop and achieve. Solevichik even describes the space program that was happening at the time as that drive of man to achieve technological, you know, excellence and advancement and development. And Adam too is described as a covenantal. Right? He he exists to be in relationship, to be with, to be united with, and, to be connected.
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  Right? And that's Basam ibn Sari. Right? His relationship with Chavah isn't just one of let's build a family together, but let's love each other. Let's be in in in union together.
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  And Rasulavezhik actually lines this up with Pesach and Shavuot. Pesach is is is really, the covenantal, the the connection, the the the thing that can't be broken with zero expectations. Right? Pesach is Hashem creates the Jewish people, and a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. There is nothing you can do that can touch that.
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  That having been said, there's also Torah. Torah is is, obviously connected to Shavuot. Shavuot is a celebration of what we we can achieve, what we can become, what we can develop into. Right? And I I think, you know, parents all the time are trying to have unconditional love while having expectations that will help our children, develop and become great, you know, great and wonderful human beings.
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  And and there's that tension between those two things. So Soleiich explains that one chag stresses one aspect, and another chag stresses another aspect, both important. Right? Pesach stresses the unconditional love, the the the thing that right? No matter what a Jew does, he is a Jew.
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  On the other hand, there are things Hashem expects from the Jewish people, and that is symbolized in Shavuos in the Torah that we receive. Rev. Malamed in Planin Halacha actually writes a very similar idea about Matza, hence why I'm speaking about Motzi Matza. He says, Matza symbolizes the things that you can't it's it's always with the minimal human involvement. Right?
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  Matza is like bread just without all the normal things that we do. It's the minimum minimum human involvement to show things that beyond free will. Right? We, you know, obviously, we believe in free will, but there are limits on free will. Right?
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  There is no free will action a Jew or a non Jew could do to stop Am Yisrael existing in this world. Hashem promises from the moment he creates Am Yisrael in Egypt, that there will be an Am Yisrael forever. We can sin terribly. We can be sent into Galos. We can suffer because of our own actions, but we can suffer terribly, but there is nothing we can do to destroy the Jewish people.
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  Just like after Noah, Hashem says, there is nothing human beings can do to destroy humanity. Right? There is there is no option of being so evil. Hashem says, I'm gonna destroy the whole world. Right?
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  That's that's the promise of of post Noah. The same promise is giving given to the Jewish people that just as the world will never exist without humanity, the world will also never exist without Am Israel. Am Israel is a guarantee, and that is symbolized by the Matza, which is the which is which is almost almost no human involvement. Right? It's the minimum human involvement form of bread to symbolize Hashem, the one who loves us unconditionally, that will always be there to protect Am Israel, to preserve Am Israel, and then we'll get to Shavuot with the with the things that we are involved in, the achievements we do achieve.
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  But it's so important for children and for us to know that there is unconditional love that Hashem has for us and that parents have for children.