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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
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Text of Verse
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Rashi comment
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Gn19-03b
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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
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Abraham baked cake; Lot baked Matzoh;
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Gn18-06
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And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
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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
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Advanced Rashi: 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.
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