BECAUSE it names the problem (arrogance) and the solution (humility) by meaning “the mouth that speaks!”
Passover is an elaborate ritual involving purposefully ingesting symbolic foods: I do not eat an egg, but my resistance. I do not eat bitter herbs but my resentment. I do not eat a paste but the mortar (or the story) I worked up with as a slave. One month prior to Passover, I start looking for crumbs of bread in all I own. Do I realize that the “leaven” I seek to clear is my arrogance and that this “eating” of the painful yeast leads me to cross over?
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