Halacha:

Pesach 

Machshava:

Pesach 

Parsha:

Bo,  Re'eh 

Description

There are two disputes between Rambam and the Tosafists regsrding the Seder. Rambam maintains that the Pesach could be eaten all night, allowing for the "Afikoman" to be eaten quite late; Tosafot takes the position that the Pesach must be eaten by midnight; consequently, the final Matza of the evening must be eaten by then. In what seems to an unrelated dispute, Rambam maintains that we use 2 Matzot at our Seder whereas Tosafot argue that we need 3. In this shiur, we examine the role of Matzah in our commemoration and inquire as to how many different Matzot there are in the story. We then use this inquiry to explain the odd inclusion of R. Elazar b. Azariah's promotion of remembering the Exodus every night...