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Pesach Sheni<\/span><\/em> \u2013 literally a 2nd Passover \u2013 about which we read in this chapter, addresses people who missed the first one, because when it was time to bring the offering, they were either \u201critually impure through contact with a dead body, or away on a distant journey\u201d (Numbers 9:1-12). This situation has never come up before, so it is not obvious what to do. After Moses inquires, God tells him that these people can prepare the same offering a month later, on the next full moon, the 14th of Iyar, to be known as <\/span>Pesach Sheni<\/span><\/i>, 2<\/span>nd<\/span> Pesach. <\/span><\/p>\n

If we google it, we\u2019ll find lots of comments how this means that \u2018it\u2019s never too late to rectify a past failing\u2019, and that this day \u2018represents the power to go back in time and redefine the past\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for me, <\/span>Pesach Sheni<\/span><\/i> happens to be my father\u2019s <\/span>yahrzeit<\/span><\/em>. And there is nothing like a <\/span>yahrzeit<\/span><\/em> to remind us that try as we might, there is definitely not \u201calways\u201d a second chance, and our power to rectify the past is quite limited. In fact, the whole teaching seems to highlight exactly the opposite! If it was that simple and there was always a second chance, which by now, we should have known, the people would not have to ask Moses, who would not have to ask God who would not have to teach now something completely new.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, there is no 2<\/span>nd<\/span>– any-other-holiday. If we missed Yom Kippur, we can still do our own <\/span>t\u2019shuva<\/span><\/em> (repentance) any day, but that majestic fast day will only come back next fall; if we were unavailable during Sukkot or Hanukkah, of course, there is going to be another one, but not next month.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is also what the people and Moses knew very well, as I am painfully reminded each year: that second chances are super rare and hard to come by; and that while we pray and hope, beg and bargain for them, they are usually not readily available, but rather, extremely extraordinary. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pesach Sheni and getting a second chance, is no less of a miracle than the first one was.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":102010,"id":102010,"title":"-620a5b967049e--620a5b967049fgen8-yizkor candle remember memorial.jpg","filename":"620a5b967049e-620a5b967049fgen8-yizkor-candle-remember-memorial.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/620a5b967049e-620a5b967049fgen8-yizkor-candle-remember-memorial.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-chapter-8\/620a5b967049e-620a5b967049fgen8-yizkor-candle-remember-memorial-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"620a5b967049e-620a5b967049fgen8-yizkor-candle-remember-memorial-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":35083,"date":"2022-02-14 13:39:34","modified":"2022-07-31 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