Pesakh
represents rebirth. A new beginning: just as the weather begins (BH very soon)
to change and the world sees Hashem’s nature at play once again, so too our spiritual
levels and spiritual realms. Where do we see this?
Rav Pinkus ZTK’L explains that there is quite a difference
between Hametz and other foods that are forbidden to eat year round. For
example there are four differences between eating has veshalom bacon and Hametz on Pesakh. There is no law that
states that one is forbidden to look at bacon, however in Pesakh one cannot
look at Hametz Bal Yera’eh. On Pesakh
we are also commanded to take out all the Hametz from our belongings and
properties. The third difference is with bacon there is no Mitzvah to burn it,
however we all know that Monday morning we will be making a small bonfire
burning bread and other foods. The final
difference is that there is no punishment of karet for consuming pig, however for a nice slice of pizza on
Pesakh KARET on the spot!
Rav Pinkus explains that Hametz is life, because the main
and essential form of consumption for all humans is bread/carbs. On Pesakh we
look at the rest of the days of the year: You
are what you eat. We are bread, because society relies on wheat. When
someone eats pig they are like a pig. Pesakh comes to teach us that we also
need to look and search and sometimes FILTER OUT the concept of “everyone.”
Meaning the Hametz, which represents everyone (you are what you eat), is not
always the best thing to do!
When a child asks: Abba
can I drive the car? Do we give him the keys? No! The same thing is with
Hametz on Pesakh > it just does not fit with the world’s standards during
these seven days of the year and if we eat it we can simply result in horrible
tragedies! Hametz is not a joke. We filter out the world and select what is
Hashem’s way of doing things and what isn’t. This entire process leads us to be
reborn!! Everything is about to bloom around us, Are you ready?
Judaism=Think.
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