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You will be surprised, but there is a holiday that is explained in the Torah and for some reason is forgotten around the corner. Hanukkah and Purim, which are relatively new holidays (a total of two thousand years...) are celebrated in full force. Costume donuts and lots of rattles, but Pesach Shani Looks like they're dead...
Three thousand three hundred and thirty years ago. The people of Israel leave Egypt and take with them the bones of righteous Joseph (son of Jacob our father), as he requested in his will.
After a year, you receive the commandment to celebrate the Passover every year and to offer a sacrifice on the eve of the holiday, when the event is intended 'only for the pure'. Two weeks earlier a tragic event occurred when two of Aaron's sons died while burning incense, and those accompanying them on their last journey had not yet finished their purification after being defiled by dead contact.
And so it turned out that the entire nation of Israel celebrated the Passover with joy and fun, except for a few people who had to give up the hearty meal from the holiday sacrifice.
then what?
I am sure there are many people who did not manage to celebrate Purim this year for all kinds of reasons. There were also some who for some reason were prevented from eating a donut.
but no…
They appear before Moshe and come with the claim "Why should we deduct the non-sacrifice of the sacrifice of A-Duni". They demand compensation.
And they receive compensation:
Moshe turns to God with a question and he receives an instruction, which continues for all generations:
"Each person because he will be unclean to the soul or on a distant road to you or your generations" - gets another chance.
A month after the holiday, on Beid Bayer, those who are late celebrate the second Passover sacrifice. The chametz remains on the table but the matza also comes and together the holiday is perfect.
But the main thing is not (only) the holiday but mainly what you learn from it: And here is an important message from the holiday, from the teachings of the Lubavitcher King Moshiach:
"Nothing is lost, it can always be fixed."
Even those who were impure or far from Jerusalem at the time of the first Passover, and even if it was "his fault" - he has another chance.
Did you not keep the previous Sabbath?
Try the Sabbath.
Haven't you visited the synagogue yet?
Now is the time.
Also putting up with the neighbor, giving up parking and thousands of other good deeds that await us, even though we've been a bit underestimating to this day.
(By the way, there is a custom to eat unleavened bread on this coming Sunday, the 14th of Iyer, the time of the second Passover, in memory of the holiday. Also, prayers of supplication and forgiveness are not said on it and it is considered a "minor holiday")