“This is the statute of the Passover sacrifice…. It must be eaten in one house…. The entire community of Israel shall make it.” (Shemos 12:43–47)
Dovid Hamelech writes in Tehillim (119:80): “May my heart be perfectly aligned with your statutes.”
According to the midrash (Shemos Rabbah 19:20) this refers to the chukim statutes of Korban Pesach and parah adumah. Why is the Korban Pesach considered a chok?
The Torah states that the Korban Pesach is brought as “one lamb for each house.” People organized themselves into groups that would slaughter and eat the korban. Only a preassigned member of the group was allowed to partake. Yet the pasuk also states that the entire united congregation of Israel must slaughter it — meaning the nation performs the mitzvah as one. These two contradictions classify the Korban Pesach as a chok.
