It is always a special treat to defend, as simple and spontaneous, a Rashi which appears as homiletic, exegetical and forced. Today we present a peachy example illustrating this technique.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Gn19-03b, Gn18-06 Both verses discuss the food prepared for the Angels. The alignment justifies the Rashi assertion that
• Abraham prepared cakes
• Lot prepared Matzoh
• Matzoh is associated with Passover
• The Jews ate Matzoh because they were expelled from Egypt and didn't have time to bake bread
• But the exodus from Egypt culminated a 400 year prophecy
• That 400 year prophecy begins with Abraham's expulsion from Egypt for lying about his wife that she is his sister
  • But if Abraham was expelled at the beginning of the 400 years
  • ...and the Jews were expelled at the end of the 400 years
  • Then just as the Jews didn't have time for Bread but only for Matzoh
  • So too it is reasonable that Abraham didn't have time to bake bread but Matzoh
  • Just as the Jews commemorate their Exodus with a Matzoh holiday
  • So to is it reasonable to assume that Abraham and Lot commemorated their Exodus with a Matzoh holiday
• Hence we conclude that Lot was eating Matzoh since he was celebrating/commemorating the Matzoh Exodus/expulsion of him and Abraham from Egypt.

Verse	Text of Verse	Rashi comment
Gn19-03b	And he [Lot] urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake Matzoh, and they did eat	Abraham baked cake; Lot baked Matzoh;
Gn18-06	And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes	We know that Matzoh is associated with Passover Jews were expelled from Egypt; they did not have time to bake bread but only time to bake Matzoh Thus the Matzoh Holiday Passover serves to commemorate the original Exodus The Egyptian exodus culminates a 400 year prophecy which ends with the Jewish Exodus and begins with the Abrahamitic exodus from Egypt Just as the Jews were expelled and only had time to bake Matzoh not bread and commemorated their exodus with a Matzoh holiday So to Abraham was expelled and presumably only had time to bake Matzoh not bread and presumably commemorated his exodus with a Matzoh holiday which Lot was observing when the Angels came

Sermonic points: The Rashi clarifies the miracle of why Lot who willfully chose Sedom and Amorah was saved. He kept quiet about Sarah's true identity. He participated in the expulsion from Egypt and commemorated him and Abraham being saved. The Angels came to him while he was perfoming this commemoration. They thereby emphasized to Lot his inner spiritual qualities which were masked by his material desires. These spiritual qualities merited him to be saved.

The above Rashi - that Lot was observing Passover - may have initially appeared homiletic. Yet we have put it on a sound foundation. We have shown an underlying unity between the beginning of the 400 years - The Abrahamitic expulsion from Egypt - and the end of the 400 years - The Jewish expulsion from Egypt. The Rashi now appears plausible expressing a deep underlyling unity between our founding Patriarch and his children.

Praise be him who chose them and their learning.