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One Minute Of Torah
Whatever You Do For You, Make It Old
When you are eating the same thing for a week, even if it's your favorite food you aren't that excited to have any more of it..What's the first thing you're in the mood of after Passover?
More matza? Probably not. Yet the Torah says that new food is prohibited. Only old food is good.
What does that mean?
Good morning!
Have you heard of the prohibition of "chadash"?
It's prohibited to eat from any grain that is "new".
Every year on the second day of Passover, a barley offering was offered to G-d in the Temple.
That offering was meant to be the very first usage of the new harvest. So it's
forbidden to eat from the new harvest until a offering is made to G-d.
This offering is called the "Omer", that's a Torah measurement. The amount of barley used weighed about 1.770kg.
The Talmud states in Rosh Hashanah page 16a that Passover is a time of harvest for grain, and by giving the first gift to G-d, all the produce in the fields are blessed.
There's a message here:
Put G-d first.
Want to see blessing in whatever you're doing, make sure whatever you do is old.
That it's not the first thing you do.
The first step of the day is to give to G-d, to pray, to study to give charity. Once that's in place, there's a blessing in what ever you do. So by making all the physical our old and always step two, we open the heavens for G-d's bountiful blessing.