Editing Eating Matzah (section)

==== Its Innovation ====
Seemingly, there is an obligation on every Yom Tov to eat bread, and if so, on Pesach, when the Torah forbade eating chametz bread - automatically there would be an obligation to eat matzah. So what is the innovation in this mitzvah?

The Ran explained that its requirement is specifically "lechem oni" (bread of affliction). And in the Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe, it is explained that the obligation to eat bread on Yom Tov is rabbinic, and on the first night of Pesach according to all opinions it is rabbinic. Thus, the Torah innovated an obligation to eat bread on the first night of Pesach (and the first night of Sukkos is learned from Pesach).