We weaken the tooth of the rasha. The Taamei Haminhagim says that Kiddush Levanah helps for tooth ache. What is the connection? Maybe, when we remove shinov (366) from rasha (570) we are left with tzadik (204). It says in Kiddush Levanah, לא יוכלו אובי לנגוע בי לרעה my enemies including the yetzer hara should not able to cause harm towards me. We are saying, let the zechus of Kiddush Levanah resist the above operation of weakening the teeth to become a tzadik. The rasha is questioning milah for korban pesach as he was not born with it, so we tell him that you weren’t born with your teeth either.
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