Yochol mrosh chodesh

Rosh chodesh

1 This is a continuation from before. Why is it only when there is matsa and maror lying in front of you. Since a dumb son does not understand words but does understand action. The gemoro also says a young child cannot have kavono but can have action to prove why he is doing it.

2 Why not from rosh chodesh? The reason is because they stopped work from rosh chodesh but that is not the main thing. The main thing is doing mitsvot not just ‘cheirus haguf’ also cheirus hanefesh. And that was only at night.

3 Why not from rosh chodesh? That we should not hold that the planets and stars decide our fate. But we yidden only believe the mitsvot decide it not the first of the month or the middle. Only at the time we do mitsvot.

4 One might think one can only do tshuva from the beginning of ones years. Or at least in the middle, so it says one can do it even at the end as long as you have matsa and maror yester tov and yetser hora functioning.

5 The idea was to bring the lamb which was their idol into the kedusha. So one might think one should do it at the beginning of the month when the commandmant was to take the lamb so that it should not fall into the hands of the chitzonim at all. Because this month the mazal of Nissan is the lamb. Or you might think on the day when it was schected so it says it isn’t until it was eaten with matsa and maror only then did it fully come into the kedusha and tikun.

6 It mentions just matsa and maror and not pesach. You might think from rosh chodesh when they were told about the pesach or on the day when they shechted the pesach so it says only at night when matsa and maror is before you. It means that we have to say the hagada even when there is no pesach only matsa and maror like today in galus. Therefore it was not said at the beginning of the month or the day when it would only refer to the pesach.

7 You might think you have to wait till you have a new and pure heart like the new moon, or at least wait till you stop doing sins. So it says even when matsa meaning mitsvot and maror youre still doing sins are before you, you can still start.

8 Similar. You might think at least he has to prepare himself from rosh chodosh to stop doing aveiros or at least the same day. So it says even while you have the maror and are still doing avieros you can start.