0458 - Why on Achroin Shel Pesach We Have Shruya - Connection to Chametz

00:01 The famous sicha of the Rebbe where he is mazbir why the Rabbeim were mahader to eat shruyo, gibrok, sanachem shel Pesach, which is printed in Likutie Sichas Cheleph Choveis, page 30, was said by the Rebbe mainly achten shel Pesach tov shin chov zayin. And I remember the Rebbe explained then that the reason they did it is because we know that chomets represents gaiveh, ego. Matzah represents anivis, humility. In the beginning, when a person starts his aveida, you have to be very careful from gaiveh. And therefore, Pesach, which is the beginning of the creation of Am Yisroel, you have to be very careful with gaiveh. That's why you're not allowed to eat chomets. On the other hand, when you get to Shvuot, Shvuot, there was a mitzvah in the Beis Hamikdash to bring shete alechem, which was chomets. Because by the time you go through the sfira and you're mevader, you elevate all your middot, you purify yourself, now you're already able to have gaiveh and use it only for the good. So the Rebbe said that achten shel Pesach, which is the seventh day of sfira, so by the time we get to the meal, we already counted the last of the seven of the first week. So you're already mevader all the details of the first middah of chesed, which is the foundation of everything. So already we have a certain level of purity, and therefore we already could take a chance of the inyan of gaiveh. And therefore we can't eat chomets, but

01:22 we could eat already and we should eat something which is a remez and a shaycheth somehow to the inyan of chomets. Just like Shvuot, there's a mitzvah to have the chomets in the Beis Hamikdash, there's a hidur to eat shruyah, which is echash chomets on achten shel Pesach. I remember we were sitting by the, standing by the fabrengen when the Rebbe explained this whole thing. It was a very, very gishmaket sicha. But people were thinking the Rebbe compares achten shel Pesach to Shvuot. Shvuot, you eat, you have to bring chomets. It's not a korban in the Beis Hamikdash. It's not on the mizbeach, but it's considered a korban and a shete alechem. But here it's only shruyah, shruyah to say, to compare shruyah to chomets. So it doesn't really show the connection of achten shel Pesach to Shvuot in the concept of chomets. That's what we were thinking. Some, it's not so clear. So at the end of the fabrengen, the Rebbe said behemshich to what he explained before be'negeia being mahader in shruyah achten shel Pesach. The Rebbe said that we even find more. We find the connection of real chomets to achten shel Pesach. There's a din in Shulchan Aruch. The Rebbe says that if a person continued his sunda of achten shel Pesach, he started before the shkiya, went in late into the night, he's allowed to eat chomets because it's already after the zman when Pesach is over. Even though when he benches, he's going to say in benching chag ha'matzot

02:37 azah. Since he was before the shkiya when it was still Pesach. So when he benches, he will say chag ha'matzot azah. That means that this whole sunda till the benching is still called chag ha'matzot. It's still achten shel Pesach. And nevertheless, you're allowed to eat chomets then. And the way the Rebbe explained, expressed the loshon was that someone asked me, how do we compare shruyah of achten shel Pesach to chomets of Shvuot when shruyah is not chomets? So the Rebbe said, that's why I'm bringing in this Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch to show that there is a connection even of real chomets and achten shel Pesach to Shvuot that we're allowed to eat real chomets in the sunda of achten shel Pesach if it's after the zman. And then the Rebbe said with a smile that why didn't he say this before when he explained this whole thing? Why did he wait till the end of the fabrengen? He said, because if I would say it before, I'm afraid people would bring to me chomets. That's the loshon he used. People would bring chomets to me. I assume he meant that if the Rebbe would say that someone would go out and get a bottle of mashke and bring it to the Rebbe at the fabrengen. So the Rebbe especially waited till the end of the fabrengen to say it. And right after that, he went to bench, et cetera, et cetera. Now, people were thinking, what did the Rebbe mean that someone asked me? When

03:46 did this person ask the Rebbe? This is something the Rebbe said first in the beginning, middle of the fabrengen. So who asked the Rebbe that the Rebbe then the fabrengen said someone asked me? And this is the answer that we do find the connection of chomets to achten shel Pesach when he brought the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch. I don't think anybody walked over to the Rebbe in the middle of the fabrengen and asked him this question. There were people that walked over, but I don't think they asked him this question. Unless the Rebbe meant that he said this inyan once before and then after the fabrengen someone asked him or after yechid or something. I don't think so. Didn't sound like it. So the pashas what that meant is since the Rebbe knew what people are thinking, because there were people who thought in their machshava that l'chuda it's a far cry we say from shruyah to chomets. So the Rebbe felt the machshava of the people and that's why he said someone asked me because this was like a question to the Rebbe that the Rebbe read the machshava and he answered with this din of the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch that says a mitzias that you're able to eat chomets even though the sunda is still considered a sunda of Pesach. That's why we say chag ha'matzot in benching. So it shows the connection of achten shel Pesach as shaycheth to chomets.