VBM The Rescue of Lot and His Daughters By Harav Yaakov Medan

I. The Pesach Observed by Lot[1] Rashi cites a surprising aggadic tradition in his commentary on the incident of Lot and his guests: "And he baked them unleavened breads (matzot)" — it was Pesach. (Bereishit 19:3) The reader might rightly be astonished by this. Pesach, after all, commemorates the Exodus which occurs only four hundred years later; the matzot in particular remind us of the haste with which the Israelites must leave, rushed out by the Egyptians. What do they have to with the rescue of Lot from Sedom? Moreover, what has Pesach, which will eventually be given to Israel alone, to do with Lot, the ancestor of the nations of Moav and Ammon?