Tell to Your Child: Insights on the Haggada and the Seder

Buying a Lamb to Be Used For the Korban Pesach

• One should not buy a lamb that’s “too old”. A lamb that is more than 1-year old cannot be used for Korban Pesach. [Rambam, Hilchos Korban Pesach 1:1]
• One should not buy a lamb that’s “too young.” If the lamb is small and fragile to a point where his bones are soft and can be easily broken when a person eats his flesh, then it should not be used for Korban Pesach. [ibid. 10:9]

Hence, one should buy his lamb from a shepherd who can be trusted.

30 Days Before the Chag

Laws of Pesach

Let’s hope that Moshiach will arrive shortly, and hence, this year, the above mentioned halachos will be relevant to us. Certainly, if a person studies halachos that pertain to areas which are only applicable at the time when the Beis Hamikdash is standing, he is showing to Hashem his emunah in Moshiach’s imminent arrival.