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Why Chometz?

Before Pesach we clean everything to make sure that we are not עובר בל יראה ובעל ימצא. However if you think about it, חמץ is really not so bad, חמץ is what we eat all year round, so why do we react the way we do? Why is חמץ so bad when Pesach comes around?!

A: So there is another way to view חמץ. Pesach is about going above and beyond and doing more than what we would normally do. חמץ is not normally אוסר, however comes Pesach and we have to go above what we normally do and get rid of the חמץ.

A משל is of 2 people drawing a picture. One person draws a stick figure and the other draws a real masterpiece with every minute detail. So in both cases the item drawn is there, however the one with more details is the one which will be more noticed.

So the same is true with עבודת ה’. Normally we are like the stick figure and we do what we have to do. However there are times when we draw ourselves with great details which is so much more beautiful and hard to accomplish, but this is what we want to be.

So this is what Pesach is about. Focusing on the details and being more than just an “Okay guy”, we want to be more like the masterpiece rather than the simple stick figure.

- Rav Pincus

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