-The First Matza on the Second Pesach - Q. Dear Rov and friend Shlit’a. Tomorrow Monday 12 of May (2025) will IY”H be the day of Pesach Sheni (Second time to sacrifice the Pesach for those that were unable to do so at the right day).
We have a tradition to eat Matza Shemura on that day, yet we disagree in our family if it is better to eat it for breakfast as early as possible to comply with zerizim makdimin or to eat later on when the Pesach Korban was eaten, which of the two traditions is more correct?
A. On questions i60 and 4972 we wrote:
“There are different traditions in regards to eating matza on Pesach Sheini, or the “Second Pesach,” originally given to those who were unable to bring the first sacrifice of Pesach.
There are those who eat matza at the time the korban would have been brought, which is in the afternoon of the fourteenth of Iyar, (Wednesday this year) following Avnei Nezer as quoted in Klei Chemda, Vaetchanan. This seems to be the prevalent costume according to Nitei Gavriel (Peasch 3, 57).
Others (Dvar Yehoshua 4, 5 et. al.) maintain that the proper time would be at night (Wednesday night this year),as that would have been the time for consuming the korban, in the days of the Bais Hamikdosh.
Some eat the matza at both occasions (Mikdash Yisroel, Shavuos p.141, mentions that this is the minhag of many Chasidim).
S’fas Emes, (Pesachim 89) offers a novel opinion; namely that the korban of Pesach Sheini, unlike the first, could be eaten also during the day.
And finally, there are the many who do not keep this minhag at all (Most S’fardim, Hagra in Maase Rav 181, and Lithuanian Jewry according to Rib’bos Ephraim 2,129).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should maintain his own minhogim and traditions.”
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