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and you shall tell your son on that day saying, ‘it is because of this that Hashem removed you from Egypt……you shall observe this decree at its designated time from year to year, (Exodus 13:8)
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there is a allusion of the answer to the wicked son, say to him, Hashem did (miracles) for me (when I left Egypt), (the Torah says, it is because of these Mitzvos that Hashem did) for me , (but not for people) like him, and if (the wicked son had been in Egypt) he would have not been worthy to be redeemed. (Rashi)
The wicked son asks ?? ????? ???? ????-what is this service to you?
This service (?????) refers to the Korban Pesach.
The purpose of the Korban Pesach was to repudiate the prime deity of the Egyptians the ‘lamb’, by slaughtering it in front of the Egyptian populace, it horrified them, by roasting it in front of the Egyptians eyes, it made them become disgusted, and the commandment not to break the Pascal lambs bones, which even after the Jews left Egypt, would serve as a rememberence to the Egyptians who after seeing whole lamb bones strewn around, that their is only One God, and their idol’s power was negated.
However the wicked son asks, this was in the ‘aincent’ times, a time of paganism and foolishness and their was a necessity to destroy this ‘sacrilege, but now when the whole world engages in monotheism,which is proven by our enlightned world, full of wisdom, and knowledge, surely this law (?????) is not relevant, the ‘bible’ must fit in with the changing times and places’, ?? ????? ???? ???????
The wicked son’s question is a apt description for Reform Judiasm.
The answer to the wicked son is as follows ??? ???? ?? -Hashem did this for me, the person must then relate that the miracles were done for him, lest he be influenced by this heretical thinking of the wicked son, He says ????? ?? ??? ???? ?? ????? ??????-, it doesn’t say, ‘with this Hashem removed you from Egypt, but it says because of this (the Korban Pesach) that Hashem removed you from Egypt. In other words it was the Mitzvas of the Pascal lamb, that was kept before the Exodous, before Creation, the Patriarchs kept the whole Torah (Talmud Yoma 28b ) so therefore God did all the miracles so this Mitzva would be kept. Then it says ????? ?? ???? ???? ?????? ????? ?????, you shall observe this decree at its designated time from year to year, it is a ??? ‘decree’, we cannot understand its reasons, and it applies to all generations, to remember this Mitzva.
(Beis Halevi)