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Maple Road • (248) 855-9090 Backyard Wooden Playsystems CommUnity Torah Portion Why Is This Sabbath 'Greater' Than All Other Sabbaths? assertion of the children of Israel. Another explanation refers to the well-known tradition of marking a bar mitzvah, the time when a young man passes from the status of katan, minor, to the status of gadol, grown up. The rite of passage from katan to gadol is marked by the fact that from now on he Sabbath immediately he is a bar mitzvah, namely one who preceding Pesach is known is personally obligated to fulfill the in Jewish tradition as commandments. Shabbat HaGadol — the The first mitzvah with the Israelites "Great Sabbath." But what is it that as a people or commanded was the makes a day in the calendar "great?" one regarding the Pesach sacrifice. Elsewhere in Jewish liturgy, every This was given to them on Sabbath day is referred to as the 10th of Nisan, the great and holy. Why then Sabbath preceding the should this particular Exodus. It is thus on this Sabbath, the last before Sabbath that Israel cele- Pesach, be singled out as the brates its communal bar "Great Sabbath?" mitzvah, declaring that it is . Many are the answers ready to enter from now on offered to this question in as one people the status of both ancient and recent rab- gadol, one committed binic literature. The fact that. to mitzvot. we find so many answers The Sabbath represents RABBI IRWIN suggests that none of them two aspects: It brings to GRONER contain the exclusive expla- mind the creation, the idea Special to the nation for the title. • that the Almighty made the Jewish News According to rabbinic cal- world in six days and rested culations, the 10th day of on the seventh and also the the month of Nisan in the year in liberation from Egypt where we were which the Exodus occurred fell on the enslaved and the Almighty freed us. Sabbath. It was the last Sabbath prior Creation and liberation are both men- to the Exodus itself, which took place tioned in the Kiddush liturgy, which four days later. Regarding this day, we ushers in the Sabbath every Friday read, "Speak unto, all the congregation night. of Israel, saying on the 10th day of It is only when the liberation from this month each of them shall take a Egypt became an immediate reality lamb to a family, a lamb to a house- that we reached the great and com- hold ..." plete Sabbath, Shabbat HaGadol, The Torah shows its awareness of which, up until now, has appeared the fact that the sheep was a sacred only in one of its aspects, that of cre- animal to the Egyptians and they ation. would not dare slaughter a deity for Shabbat HaGadol, according to one any purpose. Now, four days before medieval source, should not be ren- the liberation, the Israelites are dered as the "Great Sabbath," but ordered to publicly set aside lambs for rather, as the "Sabbath of the Great" or the purpose of the Pesach sacrifice that will mark their actual departure from bondage. It was thus on this last Sabbath prior to Pesach, that the first major act of defiance against the Parshat Metzora outlines the Egyptian oppressors took place. It ways a person was brought back took great courage for the hitherto into the community once puri- oppressed slaves to openly demon- fied (healed of disease). In strate their intention and belief in today's society, what actions and their imminent liberation. thoughts tend to isolate us from The Sabbath on which this our community and how can we occurred is thus forever called free ourselves of them? 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