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==Why is it called Shabbat HaGadol?== | ==Why is it called Shabbat HaGadol?== | ||
#Some explain that it's called [[Shabbat]] HaGadol because that was the [[Shabbat]] when a miracle occurred for the Jews in Egypt that the Egyptians didn't say anything when the Jews took sheep, which was the Egyptian god, in order to slaughter them for [[Pesach]]. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 430:1, Mishna Brurah 430:1 </ref> | #Some explain that it's called [[Shabbat]] HaGadol because that was the [[Shabbat]] when a miracle occurred for the Jews in Egypt that the Egyptians didn't say anything when the Jews took sheep, which was the Egyptian god, in order to slaughter them for [[Pesach]].<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 430:1, Mishna Brurah 430:1 </ref> | ||
#As Am Yisrael left Mitzrayim on the 15th of Nissan (Thursday),<ref name=":0">Shabbat 87b</ref> the previous Shabbat would have been the 10th of Nissan, the same day Moshe asks K'lal Yisrael that "''they shall take every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house''." <ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#4 Aish.com] citing Shemot 12:3</ref> Tosfot <ref name=":0" /> explains that this action interested and angered the Egyptians, and so the firstborn pleaded to Pharaoh to free Am Yisrael, but he refused. And so, as a result, the firstborn attacked their fathers. The greatness is derived from the damage Hashem did to Egyptian society in this sense. <ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#5 Aish.com] | #As Am Yisrael left Mitzrayim on the 15th of Nissan (Thursday),<ref name=":0">Shabbat 87b</ref> the previous Shabbat would have been the 10th of Nissan, the same day Moshe asks K'lal Yisrael that "''they shall take every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house''." <ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#4 Aish.com] citing Shemot 12:3</ref> Tosfot <ref name=":0" /> explains that this action interested and angered the Egyptians, and so the firstborn pleaded to Pharaoh to free Am Yisrael, but he refused. And so, as a result, the firstborn attacked their fathers. The greatness is derived from the damage Hashem did to Egyptian society in this sense.<ref>[https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48942426.html#5 Aish.com] citing Midrash Tehilim 136:6 and Ancient Tanchuma Bo 18</ref> | ||
#See Sfat Emet Shabbat HaGadol for more. | #See Sfat Emet Shabbat HaGadol for more. | ||
# It wasn't established on the date of the 10th because it was the date of Miriam's death and we don't want to establish a holiday for that day.<ref>Magen Avraham 430:1</ref> | |||
==Haftarah== | ==Haftarah== | ||
