When the Israelites left Egypt they had no time for the bread to rise, so they ate matzah. We eat matzah to commemorate the Exodus, not because matzah is the stuff of life. When the Israelites were to settle the land, Moses told them in Deuteronomy, they would be rich, but prosperity might make them unmindful of the law and what they need to do to keep the law and the land wherein it was exercised. So they should reread the Torah every year, the kings included, that they may continue to enjoy the blessings of the land. And they must never forget to throw the idol-worshippers out of the land lest they become corrupted. So it is not prosperity which threatens us, but not holding fast to the covenant. Israel is a prosperous country, and rightly so. People have worked hard to make it so. No one wants to eat matzah every day of the year. But Israel has not thrown out the idol-worshippers, i.e. the Palestinians, and so life there is always under duress. Our fault and no one else's. Time to hold fast to the covenant and rid ourselves of the Palestinians, reclaim our sovereign land, and go from strength to strength. And once a year for a short time we remember the beginning of the story which changed the world by eating matzah. We also have to clean up the judicial and political system so that we don't have to eat matzah all year long.
Also funny or challenging to understand your quote “We also have to clean up the judicial and political system so that we don't have to eat matzah all year long.”
—to understand the connection between Law and Politics and Matzah.
I noticed by reading a mathematical chart of disparity (some years ago)
the increasing gap between high end and low end workers pursuant to records from 1960s to and through 2000s, indicating inflation.
Was thinking about Roman inflation leading to its demise as well as this bread phenomenon: the negation of inflation of dough deprived of Chommetz versus bread 🍞 as regularly enjoyed.
I also noted the smallness of difference between the affluence of Israelis whether governing or not at modern Israel’s beginning,
and those citizens of this country at the same time. The reason I noticed was because I had been studying the Sabatical year and its purpose, which seemed to be the evening of people’s wherewithal, similar to a cup of flour sifted and overflowing which a cook takes a table knife and evens the top to be flat.
Yasher Koach Ted! Another excellent piece! Chag Samaech.
Your statement “When I was younger, I didn’t understand Matza. I still don’t, but at least know I understand that I don’t understand.”—how funny!!
When the Israelites left Egypt they had no time for the bread to rise, so they ate matzah. We eat matzah to commemorate the Exodus, not because matzah is the stuff of life. When the Israelites were to settle the land, Moses told them in Deuteronomy, they would be rich, but prosperity might make them unmindful of the law and what they need to do to keep the law and the land wherein it was exercised. So they should reread the Torah every year, the kings included, that they may continue to enjoy the blessings of the land. And they must never forget to throw the idol-worshippers out of the land lest they become corrupted. So it is not prosperity which threatens us, but not holding fast to the covenant. Israel is a prosperous country, and rightly so. People have worked hard to make it so. No one wants to eat matzah every day of the year. But Israel has not thrown out the idol-worshippers, i.e. the Palestinians, and so life there is always under duress. Our fault and no one else's. Time to hold fast to the covenant and rid ourselves of the Palestinians, reclaim our sovereign land, and go from strength to strength. And once a year for a short time we remember the beginning of the story which changed the world by eating matzah. We also have to clean up the judicial and political system so that we don't have to eat matzah all year long.
Also funny or challenging to understand your quote “We also have to clean up the judicial and political system so that we don't have to eat matzah all year long.”
—to understand the connection between Law and Politics and Matzah.
Thanks. You seem to have got it. Anybody else?
I noticed by reading a mathematical chart of disparity (some years ago)
the increasing gap between high end and low end workers pursuant to records from 1960s to and through 2000s, indicating inflation.
Was thinking about Roman inflation leading to its demise as well as this bread phenomenon: the negation of inflation of dough deprived of Chommetz versus bread 🍞 as regularly enjoyed.
I also noted the smallness of difference between the affluence of Israelis whether governing or not at modern Israel’s beginning,
and those citizens of this country at the same time. The reason I noticed was because I had been studying the Sabatical year and its purpose, which seemed to be the evening of people’s wherewithal, similar to a cup of flour sifted and overflowing which a cook takes a table knife and evens the top to be flat.