The SECRET behind the HEBREW CALENDAR

Why is it so important for Pesach to be in the spring? After all, we commemorate things based on their date. So, whenever the 15th of Nissan is, should be when Pesach is. Who cares if it's winter or spring? The answer is, the Maharal says, that we have to understand that the cyclical rhythms of nature are responding to the spiritual vibrations of the earth. The reason why spring is spring is because it is the time of freedom. What happens in the spring? The plants and the flowers and the trees and the fruits, they get liberated from the dormancy of winter. It's as if there's an imprisonment. So, the Maharal says, Pesach has to be in the spring because if you celebrate Pesach not in the spring, you're commemorating a historical event, but you're not experiencing the sacred time of liberation. And Yom Tovim are not about commemoration, they are about experience. [Music]