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So how much more should we be grateful to the Omnipresent
One for the doubled and redoubled goodness that He has
bestowed upon us; for He has brought us out of Egypt, and carried
out judgments against them, and against their idols, and smote their
first-born, and gave us their wealth, and split the sea for us, and
took us through it on dry land, and drowned our oppressors in
it, and supplied our needs in the desert for forty years, and fed us
the manna, and gave us the Shabbat, and brought us before Mount
Sinai, and gave us the Tora, and brought us into the land of Israel
and built for us the Bet Habechirah to atone for all our sins.
RABBAN GAMLIEL – THE THREE ITEMS ON PESAH
Rabban Gamliel would say: Whoever does not say the following three things on Pesach has not
fulfilled his obligation: the Pesach sacrifice, Matza, and Maror.
DO NOT lift up the shank bone.
The Pesach sacrifice that our ancestors would eat during the time the Temple stood--what is its
reason? Because the Omnipresent passed over our ancestors’ houses in Egypt, as it is written
“that you shall say: It is the sacrifice of HASHEM’s passover, for that He passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the
people bowed the head and worshipped”.
Take the broken Matza in the middle, show it everyone and say the following:
This Matza we eat -- what is its reason? Because our ancestors’ dough did not have time to
leaven before the King of Kings blessed be He revealed Himself to them and redeemed them, as it
is written “And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had
they prepared for themselves any victual” (Shemot 12,39).
Take the Maror from the Seder Plate, show it to everyone and say
the following:
This Maror we eat--what is its reason? Because the Egyptians
embittered the lives of our ancestors in Egypt, as it is written “And
they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick,
and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein
they made them serve with rigour” (Shemot 1,14).

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