A Special Relationship - R. Eliyahu Maksumov - TorahAnytime.com

we can now explain why is it that we call this holiday pesach passover although i mean wouldn't it make more sense for us to call the holiday according to the way that calls it i mean if hashem decided that name should be hakamatsu we should also call it hakamat why do we change it to passover and the rabbis explain that the reason we change it to passover is because we have a special relationship with god where we look at what hashem has done for us and hashem looks at what we do for him we say hashem we suck to the 49 level of tomah we didn't deserve to be safe from egypt and yet you still came along and you still save us you passed over the fact that we didn't deserve it when we left egypt hashem they worship idols and they worship idols and yet hashem came along to save us anyways he passed over he looked away despite the fact that we might have not deserved it only because he loves us only because we have that relationship that bond with him and we say hashem we're going to remember this forever this holiday as hag the holiday of passover you passed over our homes although we might not have been too different from the egyptians but then hashem says but i'm going to call this holiday because as you were leaving egypt you're left with such a munah with such haste you didn't even stop to think what's going to be with me i'm going to a desert how do i know this is safe you have such faith in me you have such faith that that mata didn't even have time to rise and i'm going to remember this holiday forever i'm going to call this holiday hakamatot because this holiday reminds me of the emunah that my people have for me