Hello chevreh and welcome back to our pre-Pesach Mishnayos learning where we are covering Mishnayos that discuss the period of time between Purim and Pesach as we get ready for the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach. We are now focusing and turning our attention to four Mishnayos related to the next day on the calendar which is Yud Nissan, the tenth of Nissan. The tenth of Nissan plays a big role here in the Pesach Seder night as we know because in the story of Pesach Mitzrayim, the story of when the Jews left Mitzrayim, so they needed to take their sheep on the tenth of Nissan. And so that finds its way into the Mishna we will be discussing today which is מסכת פסחים פרק ט משנה ה. Our Mishna is going to discuss a number of differences between the original Pesach that took place in Mitzrayim to the Pesach that takes place every year which is called Pesach Ledoros or Pesach Doros which is Pesach of the generations. Now the Mishna only lists a couple of things and all the Meforshim explain and the Gemara explains that there were other things that were left out. We will not discuss why only these things were made into our Mishna but we will see the differences as laid out in our Mishna. But the important part is that our Mishna will be mentioning the tenth of Nissan. And the rest of the series actually will kind of be built off of this Mishna although some of the other Mishnayos will not explicitly discuss the tenth of Nissan but you can imply it from our Mishna here and then we'll discuss those in their proper time. So let us learn the Mishna together. The Mishna begins מה בין פסח מצרים, what is the difference or what were some of the differences between the Pesach that took place during the time of the actual Yetzias Mitzrayim le-Pesach Doros to the Pesach that occurs every year, the celebration of that, the memory of that and the celebration of Pesach throughout the generations. So first, Pesach Mitzrayim, the Mishna begins פסח מצרים מקחו מבעשור. There was an obligation to purchase and to take the sheep, the lamb, on the tenth of Nissan. As we know, the story they the Jews took it, they tied it to their bedposts and the idea was to show the Mitzrim that they weren't afraid of taking the animals to which they held dear and worshipped and using them and tying them and showing that they weren't afraid because they knew that they were about to leave Mitzrayim. But that obligation of having to take it on the tenth only really applied to then, meaning to say although we'll see in the other Mishnayos leading up that there may be an obligation to check your animal for four days to make sure there are no mums, there are no blemishes, mumem, there are no blemishes on the animal so that when you bring it it can be a sholem, it can be a tam, it can be a complete animal. But we'll see that you don't necessarily need to buy it on the tenth, but there was a special rule as it related to Pesach Mitzrayim that you needed to purchase and segregate the animal already on the tenth. Not only that וטעון הזיה באגודת אזוב על המשקוף ועל שתי המזוזות. That in addition to taking the animal, when you shechted the animal, there was a special mitzvah during Pesach Mitzrayim that you took the blood and you would take a branch of a hyssop, a hyssop branch, ezov agudas ezov is a type of branch that has little flowers at the end, little leaves at the end and it was used commonly in these rituals including by the Parah Adumah, by the Metzorah and others as well. And so you would take in the Pesach Mitzrayim what you did was you took this branch and you dipped the branch into the blood of the animal and you smeared it on the doorposts and on the lintel, on the top of the doorpost as well, all around. And this way when the malach when or when Hakadosh Baruch Hu came to see which houses were Jewish houses to pass over them, he knew which ones by seeing the blood on the doorpost. So that's the second difference. The first one being again that you took the animal on the tenth, the second is that you would spread the blood all over the door, the third one is veneachal bechipazon. There was a mitzvah to eat the Korban Pesach in a hurry, in a rushed way. You were dressed, you were ready to leave, you had your staff in your hand, you had your shoes on, you were ready to leave in anticipation of Yetzias Mitzrayim. And that's something that we don't necessarily do now. And then finally belayla echad, in one night. Now the question is what does that mean because the Mishna concludes ופסח דורות נוהג כל שבעה. That when it comes to the rest of the years of Pesach, noheig kol shiva, the custom is the restrictions are there for the entire Yom Tov. And so the Gemara explains what are we talking about, this last part of belayla echad and then ופסח דורות נוהג כל שבעה. So the Gemara explains that we're talking about the issur of chametz, that during Pesach Mitzrayim the issur of not eating chametz only was for the day that they brought the korban and that night when they were eating it, but the rest of Pesach they did not have any obligation not to eat chametz. However, when it comes to obviously the rest of the generations, Pesach Dorot, the idea of not eating chametz obviously lasts the entire Yom Tov, all seven days. Obviously in chutz l'aretz we have an eighth day, so you don't eat chametz then as well. But that idea of chametz lasting seven days was something that was from the future Pesach but not for Pesach Mitzrayim. And with that we conclude our Mishnah and I wish you continued...