Welcome to our Daily Bitachon. We're now in the Haggadah shel Pesach, in the unit of יכול מראש חודש. We are finally at the punchline that the time to say the Haggadah shel Pesach is on the night of the 15th, because it says, והגדת לבנך, Tell your son ביום On that day, but that day means the night of that day , בעבור זה , Ba'Avur Zeh / Because of this / Zeh - pointing to something- referring to the Matzah and Marror that's in front of you. So tell your son, God took us out of Mirzrayim because of the Matzah and the Marror. The obvious question, asked by Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz and others is, God didn't take us out because of Matzah and Marror…isn't it the opposite? That because we ate Matzah and Marror in Mitzrayim, we commemorate the holiday of Pesach with Matzah and Marror? Did He take us out just so we could eat Matzah and Marror? And the answer is, yes He did. The Torah came before the world, and the fact that we eat Matzah, or do the Mitzvah of Marror, has nothing to do with the fact that we got out of Mitzrayim. The proof is that Avraham Avinu ate Matzah before we got out of Mitzrayim! The Avot kept the Torah before Mitzrayim. So there's something about eating Matzah on the 15th of Nissan that does something . God could have told us, it's a Chok like Para Adumah , and we don't know why we do this. But some things God decided to make a Chok , that you don't understand, and some things He decided to make it a Edut / testimony that's testifying. But we don't eat Matzah and Marror because we got out of Mitzrayim. In fact, it's the opposite:in order for us to eat Matzah and Marror, and have a sense behind it, God took us out of Mitzrayim, and we had the story of Matzah and Marror. But the goal of Yetziat Mitzrayim was to get to Matzah and Marror. That was the goal. The Torah came before the world. Like Rav Yerucham Levovitz said in a beautiful way, human beings really could have grown from the ground, or be hatched from eggs, could have come off of trees. Why did Hashem make it that human beings have a father and a mother? Because of the Mitzvah of Kivud Av V'Em , and without a father and mother you couldn't perform the Mitzvah of Kivud Av V'Em. What came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first is the Torah. And what comes afterwards-history, is there to create the stage for the Torah to be relevant, so to say. And in order for Matzah and Marror to have a sense to it, we had to get out of Mitzrayim. So we got out of Mitzrayim to create Matzah and Marror. This is a huge paradigm shift in how we look at the world. The world and all its events are really happening for the Torah, not the opposite. A mashal that I like to use to bring this out, is to imagine a top cardiologist is dating a girl, and he notices from the way she walks and talks that she has a heart murmur or something like that. He doesn't want to scare her, but he knows that she needs to take an aspirin every single day. How is he going to get her to take an aspirin every single day? He comes up with a proposal plan. Some people arrange a plane flying by with a sign saying, " Will you marry me?" This cardiologist is a dry guy, and he comes up with the following idea. He tells her that he was always interested in visiting an aspirin factory. " Let's go to the Bayer Aspirin factory," he tells her. He prepares an aspirin that has Bayer stamped on one side,and, Will you marry me? on the other side. After the whole tour, they give out complimentary aspirins. (Of course, after such a boring trip, you need to take an aspirin). He gives his future fiancé the little packet. She opens it up and sees, Will you marry me? Beautiful. How romantic. And then he tells her, "I would like you to remember this very special, this very sentimental day. So every day, I'd like you to take an aspirin and think about how I proposed to you." She goes along with it and takes an aspirin every single day, thinking that the reason she's taking the aspirin is to remember that her husband proposed to her in the aspirin factory. They live a nice long life together. When they're 80 years old, he finally tells her , "I want to to tell you a secret. The secret is that you have a heart murmur. Baruch Hashem, everything's fine. You took an aspirin every single day. You're doing great. And you know what? I took you to the aspirin factory just to get you to take the aspirin. So you are not taking the aspirin to remember what happened at the aspirin factory." That's exactly what God did for us. He didn't tell us to eat Matzah and Marror because we got out of Mitzrayim. The opposite. He made Yetziat Mitzrayim happen, He made the history happen, in order to give us a reason to eat the Matzah and Marror. But ultimately, we eat the Matzah and Marror because that's what we're supposed to do. It's not just Matzah and Marror, it's life . Everything that happens is just happening to fulfill Hashem's will in the world. What comes first is His will, is His Gezera , like the Bet Halevi says, when it comes to ויהי מקץ שנתים ימים פרעה חולם. After two years Paroah has a dream and Yosef gets out. Yosef didn't get out because Paroah had a dream. The opposite. Because Yosef had to get out, Hashem made it that Paroah had a dream. I call it the upside down theory. What comes first and what comes second? What caused what? We think, "Oh, I have a problem, so I'll pray to get rid of the problem." No, God wants your prayers, so He gives you a problem. Quite often in life we don't see what's causing what. What's the cause and what's the effect? What comes first and what comes second? What's the chicken and what's the egg? That's the lesson of Ba'Avur Zeh.